From: Michael Granger <ged@...>
Date: 2008-04-28T14:58:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Language code list? (ISO 639-1?)

On Apr 27, 2008, at 1:55 PM, Siep Korteling wrote:
> Arlen Cuss wrote:
>> I'm wondering there's any built-in list or gem that has the list of
>> language
>> codes/country names/language names (native/foreign, either's good) in
>> it?
>>

[...]

> http://locale.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/lib/

The locale module looks great! It seems like a pretty comprehensive  
interface to what you need, but if you happen to need something in one  
file, and don't need predicates and such, the Linguistics gem also has  
both the iso639-1 and iso639-2 codes in a module:

   http://deveiate.org/projects/Linguistics/browser/trunk/lib/linguistics/iso639.rb

Example usage:

   irb(main):001:0> require 'linguistics/iso639'
   => true
   irb(main):002:0> Linguistics::LanguageCodes['en']
   => {:codes=>["eng", "en"], :desc=>"English"}
   irb(main):003:0> Linguistics::LanguageCodes['sog']
   => {:codes=>["sog"], :desc=>"Sogdian"}


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Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
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