module Iso639
Public: Various methods useful for performing ISO-639 language code lookup either given their ISO-639-1 or ISO-639-2 character code value or from human input.
Language
code mappings came from loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/ISO-639-2_utf-8.txt
Examples
Iso639["en"] # => "English" Iso639["en"].alpha2 # => "en" Iso639["en"].alpha3 # => "eng" Iso639["en"].alpha3_bibliographic # => "eng" Iso639["en"].alpha3_terminology # => "eng" Iso639["en"].name # => "English" Iso639["en"].english_name # => "English" Iso639["en"].french_name # => "anglais" Iso639["German"] # => "German" Iso639["German"].alpha2 # => "de" Iso639["German"].alpha3 # => "ger" Iso639["German"].alpha3_bibliographic # => "ger" Iso639["German"].alpha3_terminology # => "deu" Iso639["German"].name # => "German" Iso639["German"].english_name # => "German" Iso639["German"].french_name # => "allemand"
Constants
- LanguagesByAlpha2
- LanguagesByAlpha3Bibliographic
- LanguagesByAlpha3Terminology
- LanguagesByEnglishName
- LanguagesByFrenchName
- VERSION
Public Class Methods
[](lookup)
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Public: Find a language by any common lookup value
lookup - A String representing an alpha-2, alpha-3, or language name
Examples
Iso639["en"] # => "English" Iso639["en"].alpha3 # => "eng" Iso639["English"].alpha2 # => "en" Iso639["FRENCH"].alpha3 # => "fre" Iso639["deu"].alpha3 # => "ger"
Returns an Iso639::Language
object
# File lib/iso639.rb, line 61 def self.[](lookup) LanguagesByAlpha2[lookup] || LanguagesByAlpha3Bibliographic[lookup] || LanguagesByAlpha3Terminology[lookup] || LanguagesByEnglishName[lookup] || LanguagesByFrenchName[lookup] end