#Getting Locale in Custom Visuals
Visuals can now know PowerBI's locale, so they can display localized information (read more about Supported languages and countries/regions for Power BI)
For example, getting locale in the sample BarChart.
Each of these bar charts was created under different locale (English, Basque and Hindi), and it is displayed in the tooltip.
##Getting the locale
The 'locale' is passed as a string during the initialization of the visual. If a locale is changed in PowerBI the visual will be generated again with the new locale. You can find the full sample code at SampleBarChart with Locale
The BarChart contructor now has a locale member which is instantiated in the constructor with the host locale instance.
private locale: string;
...
this.locale = options.host.locale;| Locale string | Language |
|---|---|
| ar-SA | العربية (Arabic) |
| bg-BG | български (Bulgarian) |
| ca-ES | català (Catalan) |
| cs-CZ | čeština (Czech) |
| da-DK | dansk (Danish) |
| de-DE | Deutsche (German) |
| el-GR | ελληνικά (Greek) |
| en-US | English (English) |
| es-ES | español service (Spanish) |
| et-EE | eesti (Estonian) |
| eU-ES | Euskal (Basque) |
| fi-FI | suomi (Finnish) |
| fr-FR | français (French) |
| gl-ES | galego (Galician) |
| he-IL | עברית (Hebrew) |
| hi-IN | हिन्दी (Hindi) |
| hr-HR | hrvatski (Croatian) |
| hu-HU | magyar (Hungarian) |
| id-ID | Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian) |
| it-IT | italiano (Italian) |
| ja-JP | 日本の (Japanese) |
| kk-KZ | Қазақ (Kazakh) |
| ko-KR | 한국의 (Korean) |
| it-LT | Lietuvos (Lithuanian) |
| lv-LV | Latvijas (Latvian) |
| ms-MY | Bahasa Melayu (Malay) |
| nb-NO | norsk (Norwegian) |
| nl-NL | Nederlands (Dutch) |
| pl-PL | polski (Polish) |
| pt-BR | português (Portuguese) |
| pt-PT | português (Portuguese) |
| ro-RO | românesc (Romanian) |
| ru-RU | русский (Russian) |
| sk-SK | slovenský (Slovak) |
| sl-SI | slovenski (Slovenian) |
| sr-Cyrl-RS | српски (Serbian) |
| sr-Latn-RS | srpski (Serbian) |
| sv-SE | svenska (Swedish) |
| th-TH | ไทย (Thai) |
| tr-TR | Türk (Turkish) |
| uk-UA | український (Ukrainian) |
| vi-VN | tiếng Việt (Vietnamese) |
| zh-CN | 中国 (Chinese-Simplified) |
| zh-TW | 中國 (Chinese-Tranditional) |