NAME¶
Locale::Language - standard codes for language identification
SYNOPSIS¶
use Locale::Language;
$lang = code2language('en'); # $lang gets 'English'
$code = language2code('French'); # $code gets 'fr'
@codes = all_language_codes();
@names = all_language_names();
DESCRIPTION¶
The "Locale::Language" module provides access to standard codes used
for identifying languages, such as those as defined in ISO 639.
Most of the routines take an optional additional argument which specifies the
code set to use. If not specified, the default ISO 639 two-letter codes will
be used.
SUPPORTED CODE SETS¶
There are several different code sets you can use for identifying languages. The
ones currently supported are:
- alpha-2
- This is the set of two-letter (lowercase) codes from ISO
639, such as 'he' for Hebrew.
This code set is identified with the symbol "LOCALE_LANG_ALPHA_2".
This is the default code set.
- alpha-3
- This is the set of three-letter (lowercase) bibliographic
codes from ISO 639, such as 'heb' for Hebrew.
This code set is identified with the symbol
"LOCALE_LANG_ALPHA_3".
- term
- This is the set of three-letter (lowercase) terminologic
codes from ISO 639.
This code set is identified with the symbol
"LOCALE_LANG_TERM".
ROUTINES¶
- code2language ( CODE [,CODESET] )
- language2code ( NAME [,CODESET] )
- language_code2code ( CODE ,CODESET ,CODESET2 )
- all_language_codes ( [CODESET] )
- all_language_names ( [CODESET] )
- Locale::Language::rename_language ( CODE ,NEW_NAME
[,CODESET] )
- Locale::Language::add_language ( CODE ,NAME [,CODESET]
)
- Locale::Language::delete_language ( CODE [,CODESET]
)
- Locale::Language::add_language_alias ( NAME ,NEW_NAME
)
- Locale::Language::delete_language_alias ( NAME
)
- Locale::Language::rename_language_code ( CODE ,NEW_CODE
[,CODESET] )
- Locale::Language::add_language_code_alias ( CODE
,NEW_CODE [,CODESET] )
- Locale::Language::delete_language_code_alias ( CODE
[,CODESET] )
- These routines are all documented in the Locale::Codes man
page.
SEE ALSO¶
- Locale::Codes
- Locale::Constants
- http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/
- Source of the ISO 639 codes.
AUTHOR¶
See Locale::Codes for full author history.
Currently maintained by Sullivan Beck (sbeck@cpan.org).
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright (c) 1997-2001 Canon Research Centre Europe (CRE).
Copyright (c) 2001-2010 Neil Bowers
Copyright (c) 2010-2011 Sullivan Beck
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
same terms as Perl itself.