[Developers] language codes

[Kurt Bollacker]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:11:08AM -0800, Arthur van Hoff wrote:
> Hi,
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> Has someone looked into updating the language codes for
> /language/human_language?
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> I'm trying to link codes like "en-US" and "de-DE" to a human language,
> but it looks like not all of them have been entered.

"en" and "de" are ISO 639-1 language codes.  Whe have most of those
codes, but 639-1 does not cover all of the worlds languages.  639-3 is
complete, and Freebase has over 99% coverage of those codes.  

W3 format (RFC1766) of language codes includes the local specifier
(e.g. "en-US") as a combination of ISO 639 and ISO 3166 country codes,
essentially forming a dialect.  Freebase does not currently have those
directly, but they could convceivably be constructed from language and
country codes.

What is it you need to do with the codes?  

								Kurt :-)