A variable information block has the following form:
Syntax
BLOCK “VarFileInfo” { VALUE “Translation” langID, charsetID . . . }
Parameters
langID
Specifies one of the language identifiers specified in Remarks.
charsetID
Specifies one of the character set identifiers specified in Remarks.
Remarks
More than one identifier pair can be given, but each pair must be separated from the preceding pair with a comma.
The lang-charset parameter specifies one of the language codes shown in the following table.
| Code | Language | Code | Language |
| 0x0401 | Arabic | 0x0415 | Polish |
| 0x0402 | Bulgarian | 0x0416 | Brazilian Portuguese |
| 0x0403 | Catalan | 0x0417 | Rhaeto-Romanic |
| 0x0404 | Traditional Chinese | 0x0418 | Romanian |
| 0x0405 | Czech | 0x0419 | Russian |
| 0x0406 | Danish | 0x041A | Croato-Serbian (Latin) |
| 0x0407 | German | 0x041B | Slovak |
| 0x0408 | Greek | 0x041C | Albanian |
| 0x0409 | U.S. English | 0x041D | Swedish |
| 0x040A | Castilian Spanish | 0x041E | Thai |
| 0x040B | Finnish | 0x041F | Turkish |
| 0x040C | French | 0x0420 | Urdu |
| 0x040D | Hebrew | 0x0421 | Bahasa |
| 0x040E | Hungarian | 0x0804 | Simplified Chinese |
| 0x040F | Icelandic | 0x0807 | Swiss German |
| 0x0410 | Italian | 0x0809 | U.K. English |
| 0x0411 | Japanese | 0x080A | Mexican Spanish |
| 0x0412 | Korean | 0x080C | Belgian French |
| 0x0413 | Dutch | 0x0C0C | Canadian French |
| 0x0414 | Norwegian – Bokml | 0x100C | Swiss French |
| 0x0810 | Swiss Italian | 0x0816 | Portuguese |
| 0x0813 | Belgian Dutch | 0x081A | Serbo-Croatian (Cyrillic) |
| 0x0814 | Norwegian – Nynorsk |
The charsetID parameter specifies one of the character set identifiers shown in the following table.
| Identifier | Character Set |
| 0 | 7-bit ASCII |
| 932 | Japan (Shift – JIS X-0208) |
| 949 | Korea (Shift – KSC 5601) |
| 950 | Taiwan (Big5) |
| 1200 | Unicode |
| 1250 | Latin-2 (Eastern European) |
| 1251 | Cyrillic |
| 1252 | Multilingual |
| 1253 | Greek |
| 1254 | Turkish |
| 1255 | Hebrew |
| 1256 | Arabic |