[Developers] language codes

[Arthur van Hoff]

Hi Kurt,

I'm taking the language out of an RSS feed (RFC766, which refers to ISO
639) and I'm trying to link it to a Human Language. I need to fill in
the /user/cotton/default_domain/broadcast/language field. I can strip
the local identifier and just use the 2 character language field.

Unfortunately it looks like the coverage of
/language/human_language/iso_639_1_code is very minimal. Only 19 values
are entered.

"query":[{
    "type": "/language/human_language",
    "name" : null,
    "iso_639_1_code" : {"value":null},
    "id": null
}]

Can I convince someone to enter the full set? That way my script won't
break each time it finds a new language...

Have fun,

    Arthur van Hoff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: developers-bounces at freebase.com [mailto:developers-
> bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Bollacker
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 8:43 AM
> To: For discussions about MQL,Freebase API and apps built on Freebase
> Subject: Re: [Developers] language codes
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:11:08AM -0800, Arthur van Hoff wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > Has someone looked into updating the language codes for
> > /language/human_language?
> >
> >
> >
> > 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 :-)
> 
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