[sword-devel] ISO language codes

David Haslam dfhdfh at protonmail.com
Tue Jan 12 06:15:37 EST 2021


Hi Jamie,

One use is to support a language tree structure in the IntallMgr UI for some front-end apps.

Xiphos & PocketSword are examples of such.

And Bible - on the other hand - doesn’t present such a tree structure.

Regards,

David

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On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 08:59, Jamie <jamie at critos.co.uk> wrote:

> The Sword config file contains an ISO language code. Is anyone able to tell me what this gets used for (and more specifically, whether there is any requirement as to whether this should be a 2-character code or a 3-character one)?
>
> (In fact I see IANA now have a new registry of codes which supersedes the 2-char and 3-char lists, but it looks as though this merely mandates the use of the old 2-character codes where available, and 3-character otherwise.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> ‘Jamie’ Jamieson
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