ISO639

v0.1.0

ISO639 v0.1.0 ISO639 View Source

This library exposes functions to convert ISO 639-1 language code representation to ISO 639-2 and backwards where it’s applicable. Data for conversions was taken from https://github.com/haliaeetus/iso-639. Note about ISO 639-2/B: all Bibliographic codes will be converted to ISO 639-2 codes

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Functions

to_iso639_1(arg1)

expects as input downcased ISO 639-2 or ISO 639-2/B language code and returns ISO 639-1 code if it exists in standard and nil if not. If function receives as input ISO 639-1 language code, it’s returned unchanged

to_iso639_2(arg1)

expects as input downcased ISO 639-1, ISO 639-2 or ISO 639-2/B language code and returns ISO 639-2 code if it exists in standard and nil if not. If function receives as input ISO 639-2 language code, it’s returned unchanged. ISO 639-2/B will be changed to ISO 639-2

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Link to this function to_iso639_1(arg1) View Source 
to_iso639_1(language_code :: String.t()) :: String.t() | nil

expects as input downcased ISO 639-2 or ISO 639-2/B language code and returns ISO 639-1 code if it exists in standard and nil if not. If function receives as input ISO 639-1 language code, it’s returned unchanged.

Examples 

iex> ISO639.to_iso639_1("sag")
"sg"

iex> ISO639.to_iso639_1("en")
"en"

iex> ISO639.to_iso639_1("ace")
nil
Link to this function to_iso639_2(arg1) View Source 
to_iso639_2(language_code :: String.t()) :: String.t() | nil

expects as input downcased ISO 639-1, ISO 639-2 or ISO 639-2/B language code and returns ISO 639-2 code if it exists in standard and nil if not. If function receives as input ISO 639-2 language code, it’s returned unchanged. ISO 639-2/B will be changed to ISO 639-2

Examples 

iex> ISO639.to_iso639_2("sag")
"sag"

iex> ISO639.to_iso639_2("sg")
"sag"

iex> ISO639.to_iso639_2("chi")
"zho"

iex> ISO639.to_iso639_2("en")
"eng"

iex> ISO639.to_iso639_2("ud")
nil