Please create a table with language codes, languge, etc...

Former Member
Former Member
If I look in devices.xml the list of supported languages is..
hrv
ces
chs
cht
dan
dut
eng
fin
fre
deu
gre
hun
ita
jpa
nob
pol
por
rus
slo
slv
spa
swe

Some of them seem obvious, while others I am having trouble placing. Take cht for example, it does not appear as a valid code in either ISO 639-2 or ISO 3166-1 alpha-3.

Could you please provide a table with relevant details to help include language support. Maybe something like... Language : Country : Code
============================
English : n/a : eng
French : France : fre
French : Canada : fre_CAN
  • Former Member
    Former Member over 10 years ago
    Wow, are you really planning on supporting all those languages? I'm only supporting eng, fre, deu, spa, dut, ita, and finding that already quite a challenge.
  • Former Member
    Former Member over 10 years ago
    No, not that ambitious just yet. Since I can't match some of them I thought it best to ask, for future reference.
  • I believe the three odd ones are:

    jpa - Japanese
    cht - Chinese (Traditional)
    chs - Chinese (Simplified)

    Let me know if there are any other ones that are confusing.
  • The language codes should comply with ISO 639-2 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-2). The code for Japanese should be 'jpn' rather than 'jpa', so we'll get that corrected. Chinese is an exception. the ISO standard specifies 'zho' for Chinese and doesn't distinguish between traditional and simplified Chinese. For this reason, we've broken from the standard and used 'cht' and 'chs' (though maybe we could be slightly closer to compliance by using 'zht' and 'zhs').

    I'll report this to get the code for Japanese corrected and review the codes for Chinese.
  • Former Member
    Former Member over 10 years ago
    I believe the three odd ones are:

    jpa - Japanese
    cht - Chinese (Traditional)
    chs - Chinese (Simplified)

    Let me know if there are any other ones that are confusing.


    Without going through the entire list, I will provide another example.

    Take hrv. Croatian right. But say I want to publish my Pozdrav svima app. In the dropdown list of languages I see no option for Craotia. I don't know much about Multilingualism, so perhaps it's just because I'm uneducated, but to me it seems pretty hard to match it all up. I figure that since Garmin have created their system, it would be easier to publish it in a clear table, rather than make individuals have to reverse engineer it.
  • In the dropdown list of languages I see no option for Craotia.

    I see it just below Hungarian in the sumulator's dropdown list, but otherwise I agree.
  • Former Member
    Former Member over 10 years ago
    Yes, it is in the simulator dropdown list. I should have specified I was referring to the dropdown list on the Edit App Details page of CIQ. I now realize is Hrvatski.
  • We've fixed the codes for Japanese (jpn), simplified Chinese (zhs), and traditional Chinese (zht). These will be available in the next release.