lang::util::iso6392_from_language (public)

 lang::util::iso6392_from_language -language language

Defined in packages/acs-lang/tcl/lang-util-procs.tcl

Returns the ISO-639-2 code for a language.

Switches:

-language (required)

Language, using ISO-639 code (2 or 3 chars)

Returns:

The ISO-639-2 terminology code for the language

Testcases:

test_get_locales

Source code:

    set iso6392_code ""
    set lang_len [string length $language]
    if { $lang_len == 2 } {
        # input is iso-639-1 language code

        set iso6392_code [db_string get_iso2_code_from_iso1 {} -default ""]

    } elseif { $lang_len == 3 } {
        # input is iso-639-2 language code
        # we check in the table in case the language code is wrong

        set iso6392_code [db_string get_iso2_code_from_iso2 {} -default ""]
    }

    return $iso6392_code

XQL Not present:

PostgreSQL, Oracle

Generic XQL file:

<fullquery name="lang::util::iso6392_from_language.get_iso2_code_from_iso1">
    <querytext>
      
      select iso_639_2
      from   language_639_2_codes
      where  iso_639_1 = :language
    
    </querytext>
</fullquery>

<fullquery name="lang::util::iso6392_from_language.get_iso2_code_from_iso2">
    <querytext>
      
      select iso_639_2
      from   language_639_2_codes
      where  iso_639_2 = :language
    
    </querytext>
</fullquery>

packages/acs-lang/tcl/lang-util-procs.xql