[sword-devel] 3-letter language character codes

[DM Smith]

On 11/09/2009 10:33 AM, Nic Carter wrote:
>
> Hi all, I have a question about where we get our 3-letter character 
> codes for the languages of our modules from?
> I just added code to lookup (from the data available at 
> http://www.sil.org/ISO639-3/default.asp ) what the different languages 
> are that we have modules in, but I still end up with the following 
> language codes as unknown:

ISO-639-3 is a changing set of codes.
Take a look at the retirements of code.
http://www.sil.org/ISO639-3/iso-639-3_Retirements_20090126.tab
These all changed on 2009-01-16.
As you can see from the year on the files, the name was correct for the 
file.

>
> ckw (from ckw_WBTI_1996)
replaced with cak.
> cti (from cti_BL_1976)
replaced with ctu.
> mvc (from mvc_WBTI_2002)
replaced with mam
> mvj (from mvj_WBTI_2000)
replaced with mam
> qut (from qut_WBTI_1997)
replaced with quc
> tzz (from tzz_BL_1987)
replace with tzo
>
> These are all from the crosswire beta modules site...
> I was awesomely impressed with the huge range of languages available 
> through the crosswire & crosswire beta sources (& I'm ignoring the 
> experimental repo atm!) & it further reminds me of how sheltered I am 
> for only knowing one language (and several computer languages!)...
>
> Anyway, can anyone point me to where I can look up these extra 
> language codes?  Or are these for languages that are so rare that they 
> aren't even in ISO639-3 yet & they'll be added soon?  or . . .  ?  :)
>
> thanks all,
>     nic...  :)
>
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