Standard

It is based on BCP 47 (RFC 5646) and the latest IANA language subtag registry.

This project will be updated as the standards change.

Language-tags 1.0.0 only supports Python 3, for Python 2 support, please use language-tags 0.5.0.

JSON data

See the language-subtag-registry project for the underlying JSON data.

Javascript version

This project is a Python version of the language-tags Javascript project. Changelog =========

1.3.2

• Add support for python 3.15 (#103)

• Update dependencies (#105)

1.3.1

• Add python 3.13 and python 3.14 support (#100)

1.3.0

• Migrate to latest data #97

• Pyproject and GitHub Actions (#92)

• Add test-coverage (#96)

1.2.0

• Update data to version 2022-06-28 (#89)

• Drop support for Python 3.6 and 3.7 and add support for Python 3.10 (#87)

• Drop universal wheels

• Drop tox support

1.1.0

• Update data to version 2020-09-29 (#62)

• Update dependencies and Python (Removed Python 3.5 support, now supports 3.6 to 3.9) (#74, #77)

• Drop pyup support (#80)

• Fix pypi description (#78)

• Include MIT License in package (#67)

• Fix deprecation warnings (#84)

1.0.0

• Drop support for Python 2

0.5.0

• Updated dependencies and Python (Removed Python3.3 and Python3.4 support, added 3.6 and 3.7)

0.4.6

• Avoid modifying tag when getting description

0.4.5

• Close files after opening #38

0.4.4

• Bug fix release: language tag ‘aa’ is detected as invalid #27

0.4.3

• Upgrade to <https://github.com/mattcg/language-subtag-registry/releases/tag/v0.3.18>

0.4.2

• Official python 3.5 compatibility

• Upgrade to <https://github.com/mattcg/language-subtag-registry/releases/tag/v0.3.15>

0.4.1

• Included the data folder again in the project package.

• Added bash script (update_data_files.sh) to download the language-subtag-registry and move this data in the data folder of the project.

0.4.0

• Allow parsing a redundant tag into subtags.

• Added package.json file for easy update of the language subtag registry data using npm (npm install or npm update)

• Improvement of the language-tags.tags.search function: rank equal description at top. See mattcg/language-tags#4

0.3.2

• Upgrade to <https://github.com/mattcg/language-subtag-registry/releases/tag/v0.3.11>

• Added wheel config

• Fixed bug under windows: opening data files using utf-8 encoding.

0.3.1

• Upgrade to <https://github.com/mattcg/language-subtag-registry/releases/tag/v0.3.8>

0.3.0

• Upgrade to <https://github.com/mattcg/language-subtag-registry/releases/tag/v0.3.6>

• Simplify output of __str__ functions. The previous json dump is assigned to the repr function.

  nlbe = tags.tags('nl-Latn-BE')
  > print(nlbe)
  'nl-Latn-BE'
  > print(nlbe.language)
  'nl'
  > print(nlbe.script)
  'Latn'

0.2.0

• Adjust language, region and script properties of Tag. The properties will return language_tags.Subtag.Subtag instead of a list of string subtags

  > print(tags.tag('nl-BE').language)
  '{"subtag": "nl", "record": {"Subtag": "nl", "Suppress-Script": "Latn", "Added": "2005-10-16", "Type": "language", "Description": ["Dutch", "Flemish"]}, "type": "language"}'
  > print(tags.tag('nl-BE').region)
  '{"subtag": "be", "record": {"Subtag": "BE", "Added": "2005-10-16", "Type": "region", "Description": ["Belgium"]}, "type": "region"}'
  > print(tags.tag('en-mt-arab').script)
  '{"subtag": "arab", "record": {"Subtag": "Arab", "Added": "2005-10-16", "Type": "script", "Description": ["Arabic"]}, "type": "script"}'

0.1.1

• Added string and Unicode functions to make it easy to print Tags and Subtags.

  > print(tags.tag('nl-BE'))
  '{"tag": "nl-be"}'

• Added functions to easily select either the language, region or script subtags strings of a Tag.

  > print(tags.tag('nl-BE').language)
  ['nl']

0.1.0

• Initial version