iso-languages

Helpers for manipuling RFC4646 locales. Purpose is to have for each locale, the ISO639, ISO3166, ISO15924 and m49 references associated.

Installation

npm install iso-locales

ISO Locale

This library manages a collection of ISOLocale/s, completed with differents sources (see dependencies below). The main index is coming from: https://github.com/TiagoDanin/Windows-Locale

interface ISOLocale {
    tag: string;
    tag_bcp47?: BCP47Data;
 
    lcid: number;
    lcid_parts: LCIDParts;
 
    language: string;           // UI Friendly name (EN)
    language_local?: string;    // UI Native name
    language_iso639?: ISO639Data;
 
    region?: string;            // UI Friendly name (EN)
    region_iso3166?: ISO3166Data;
 
    script?: string;
    script_iso15924?: ISO15924Data;
}
 
// return all locales
function getLocales(): ISOLocale[];

You can search for a locale:

function findByLanguage(text: string): ISOLocale | null;
function findByLanguageLocal(text: string): ISOLocale | null;
function findByRegion(text: string): ISOLocale | null;
function findByTag(text: string): ISOLocale | null;
function findByLCID(id: number): ISOLocale | null;
...

RFC4646

• Ref: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-lcid/70feba9f-294e-491e-b6eb-56532684c37f?redirectedfrom=MSDN

LCID (RFC5646)

• Ref: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/intl/locale-identifiers
• Ref: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/intl/language-identifier-constants-and-strings

A language ID is a 16 bit value which is the combination of a primary language ID and a secondary language ID. The bits are allocated as follows:

      +-----------------------+-------------------------+
      |     Sublanguage ID    |   Primary Language ID   |
      +-----------------------+-------------------------+
       15                   10 9                       0   bit

A locale ID (LCID) is a 32 bit value which is the combination of a language ID, a sort ID, and a reserved area. The bits are allocated as follows:

      +-------------+---------+-------------------------+
      |   Reserved  | Sort ID |      Language ID        |
      +-------------+---------+-------------------------+
       31         20 19     16 15                      0   bit

interface LCIDParts {
    language: number;
    primary: number;
    sub: number;
    sort: number;
}
 
const SUBLANG_NEUTRAL = 0x00;
const SUBLANG_DEFAULT = 0x01;
const SORT_DEFAULT = 0x00;
 
function parse(lcid: number): LCIDParts;

bcp-47 / RFC4646

• Ref: https://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4646
• Dependency: https://github.com/wooorm/bcp-47

 langtag       = language
                 ["-" script]
                 ["-" region]
                 *("-" variant)
                 *("-" extension)
                 ["-" privateuse]

ISO639 (Language)

• Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639
• Dependency: https://github.com/adlawson/langs.js
• Lists: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_codes_ISO_639-1, https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php

interface ISO639Data {
    name: string;
    name_local: string;
    '1-alpha2': string;    // ISO639.1 alpha-2
    '2-alpha3': string;    // ISO639.2 alpha-3
    '2T-alpha3'?: string;   // ISO639.2 alpha-3 Terminology
    '2B-alpha3'?: string;   // ISO639.2 alpha-3 Bibliographic
    '3-alpha3': string;    // ISO639.3 alpha-3 (OBSOLETE)
}
 
function getList(): ISO639Data[];
function find(text: string): ISO639Data | null;
 

ISO15924 (Script)

• Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_15924
• Dependency: https://github.com/wooorm/iso-15924
• Lists: https://unicode.org/iso15924/iso15924-codes.html

interface ISO15924Data {
    name: string;       // Script name
    code: string;       // alpha4 ISO 15924 code
    numeric: string;    // num3 ISO 15924 code
    pva: string;        // Property Value Alias
    date: string;       // Date of addition
}
 
function getList(): ISO15924Data[];
function find(text: string): ISO15924Data | null;
 

ISO3166 (Region/Country)

• Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166
• Dependency: https://github.com/nirvana-flame/countries-code
• Lists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_3166_country_codes

interface ISO3166Data {
    name_en: string;
    '1-alpha2': string;    // ISO3166.1 alpha-2
    '1-alpha3': string;    // ISO3166.1 alpha-3
    '1-num3': number;      // ISO3166.1 numeric-3 M49
    '1-num3-m49'?: UNM49Data;
}
 
function getList(): ISO3166Data[];
function find(text: string): ISO3166Data | null;
 

UN M49 (Region/Country)

• Ref: https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_M49
• Dependency: https://github.com/wooorm/un-m49

enum UNM49Type {
    Global = 0,     // (example: 001 World)
    Region = 1,     //  (example: 002 Africa)
    Subregion = 2,  //  (example: 202 Sub-Saharan Africa)
    Intermediate = 3, //  region (example: 017 Middle Africa)
    Country = 4,    //  or area (example: 024 Angola)
}
 
interface UNM49Data {
    type: UNM49Type;    // Script name
    code: string;       // num3 ISO 15924 code
    parent?: string;    // Property Value Alias
}
 
function getList(): ISO3166Data[];
function find(text: string): ISO3166Data | null;
 

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2020 Emmanuel Kimmerlin

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