I believe VS2005 only supports the following Localization languages: Neutral English French German Italian Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Japanese Korean Spanish

"Text for deployment properties must be entered using characters from the code page for the target locale or a build error will occur. The code pages supported for deployment are: 1252 (Neutral, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish), 936 (Chinese (Simplified)), 950 (Chinese (Traditional)), 932 (Japanese), and 949 (Korean)." -- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kcx25hzz(VS.80).aspx