Module: Iso639

Defined in:
lib/iso639.rb,
lib/iso639/version.rb,
lib/iso639/language.rb,
lib/iso639/insensitive_hash.rb

Overview

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"

Defined Under Namespace

Classes: InsensitiveHash, Language

Constant Summary collapse

LanguagesByAlpha2 = 
InsensitiveHash.new
LanguagesByAlpha3Bibliographic = 
LanguagesByAlpha3 = InsensitiveHash.new
LanguagesByAlpha3Terminology = 
InsensitiveHash.new
LanguagesByEnglishName = 
LanguagesByName = InsensitiveHash.new
LanguagesByFrenchName = 
InsensitiveHash.new
VERSION = 
"1.3.3"

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.[](lookup) ⇒ Object

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



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# File 'lib/iso639.rb', line 61

def self.[](lookup)
  LanguagesByAlpha2[lookup] ||
    LanguagesByAlpha3Bibliographic[lookup] ||
    LanguagesByAlpha3Terminology[lookup] ||
    LanguagesByEnglishName[lookup] ||
    LanguagesByFrenchName[lookup]
end