Title: Hi just interesting why ukrainian version of wordpress…
Author: Dmytro
Published: January 17, 2012
Last modified: September 10, 2016

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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/azzepis/) [Dmytro](https://profiles.wordpress.org/azzepis/)
5:05 am _on_ January 17, 2012     
Tags: [locale ( 26 )](https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/tag/locale/),
[Translation ( 73 )](https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/tag/translation/), [uk ( 307 )](https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/?locale=uk),
[ukrainian ( 2 )](https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/tag/ukrainian/)   

# Hi just interesting why ukrainian version of wordpress…

Hi, just interesting, why ukrainian version of wordpress has localeLocale Locale
= language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for
instance es_MX denotes Spanish as it’s used in Mexico. A list of all locales supported
by WordPress in [https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/](https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/)
code uk, but not uk_UA

in codex i found:

The naming convention of the .mo filesMO files MO, or Machine Object is a binary
data file that contains object data referenced by a program. It is typically used
to translate program code, and may be loaded or imported into the GNU gettext program.
This is the format used in a WordPress install. These files are normally located
inside .../wp-content/languages/ is based on the ISO-639 language code (e.g. pt 
for Portuguese) followed by the ISO-3166 country code (e.g. _PT for Portugal or 
_BR for Brazil)

[#locale](https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/tag/locale/), [#translation](https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/tag/translation/),
[#uk](https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/?locale=uk), [#ukrainian](https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/tag/ukrainian/)

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 1. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d71843bd2670ce03308e7ab56b82febe090a6cfb9944e81657bd619a4756d50f?
    s=32&d=mm&r=g)
 2.  [Zé](http://everywhereelse.wordpress.com)  10:51 am _on_ January 17, 2012
 3. We generally only use country codes for disambiguation, i.e. UA would be used if
    there was another variant of Ukrainian being used. Makes for shorter, nicer urls.
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     *  azzepis  10:54 am _on_ January 17, 2012
     * thank you very match for answer from Ukrainian localizators 🙂

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