I needed to start a wine app (WeChat) with chinese localisation/language as wine takes system locale.
It took a while to find the working method for my setup. Along the way I created a basic list of locales and their abbreviations, for snapp, just posting here for reference.
in en_GB.UTF-8 .... the en position is the language code, the GB position is the country code. The extension is the coding used, or codepage
'UTF-8 is the universal code page for internationalization'
"UTF-8 is a variable-length character encoding standard used for electronic communication. Defined by the Unicode Standard, the name is derived from Unicode (or Universal Coded Character Set) Transformation Format"
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Afrikaans af_ZA.UTF-8
Albanian sq_AL.UTF-8
Arabic ar_SA.UTF-8
Basque eu_ES.UTF-8
Belarusian be_BY.UTF-8
Bosnian bs_BA.UTF-8
Bulgarian bg_BG.UTF-8
Catalan ca_ES.UTF-8
Croatian hr_HR.UTF-8
Chinese_Simp zh_CN.UTF-8
Chinese_Trad zh_TW.UTF-8
Czech cs_CZ.UTF-8
Danish da_DK.UTF-8
Dutch nl_NL.UTF-8
English en.UTF-8
English_US en_utf8
Estonian et_EE.UTF-8
Farsi fa_IR.UTF-8
Filipino fil_PH.UTF-8
Finnish fi_FI.UTF-8
French fr_FR.UTF-8
French_Belgium fr_BE.UTF-8
French_Canada fr_CA.UTF-8
Gaelic ga.UTF-8
Gallego gl_ES.UTF-8
Georgian ka_GE.UTF-8
German de_DE.UTF-8
Greek el_GR.UTF-8
Gujarati gu.UTF-8
Hebrew he_IL.utf8
Hindi hi_IN.UTF-8
Hungarian hu.UTF-8
Icelandic is_IS.UTF-8
Indonesian id_ID.UTF-8
Italian it_IT.UTF-8
Japanese ja_JP.UTF-8
Kannada kn_IN.UTF-8
Khmer km_KH.UTF-8
Korean ko_KR.UTF-8
Lao lo_LA.UTF-8
Lithuanian lt_LT.UTF-8
Latvian lat.UTF-8
Malayalam ml_IN.UTF-8
Malaysian ms_MY.UTF-8
Maori mi_NZ.UTF-8
Maori mi_NZ.UTF-8
Mongolian mn.UTF-8
Norwegian no_NO.UTF-8
Nynorsk nn_NO.UTF-8
Polish pl.UTF-8
Portuguese pt_PT.UTF-8
Portuguese_Brazil pt_BR.UTF-8
Romanian ro_RO.UTF-8
Russian ru_RU.UTF-8
Samoan mi_NZ.UTF-8
Serbian sr_CS.UTF-8
Slovak sk_SK.UTF-8
Slovenian sl_SI.UTF-8
Somali so_SO.UTF-8
Spanish es_ES.UTF-8
Swedish sv_SE.UTF-8
Tagalog tl.UTF-8
Tamil ta_IN.UTF-8
Thai th_TH.UTF-8
Tongan mi_NZ.UTF-8
Turkish tr_TR.UTF-8
Ukrainian uk_UA.UTF-8
Vietnamese vi_VN.UTF-8