iso639
The iso639 gem provides convenience methods for looking up ISO-639-1 or ISO-639-2 language codes by their english name, 2-char, or 3-char counterpart
All data was generated from the Library of Congress's list of UTF-8 Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages.
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem "iso639"And then execute:
$ bundleOr install it yourself as:
$ gem install iso639Usage
require "iso639"
# Lookup by alpha-2 codes
Iso639["en"] # => "English"
Iso639["en"].alpha2 # => "en"
Iso639["en"].alpha3 # => "eng"
Iso639["en"].alpha3_bibliographic # => "eng"
Iso639["en"].alpha3_terminology # => "eng"
Iso639["en"].name # => "English"
Iso639["en"].english_name # => "English"
Iso639["en"].french_name # => "anglais"
# Lookup by alpha-3-bibliographic codes
Iso639["fre"] # => "French"
Iso639["fre"].alpha2 # => "fr"
Iso639["fre"].alpha3 # => "fre"
Iso639["fre"].alpha3_bibliographic # => "fre"
Iso639["fre"].alpha3_terminology # => "fra"
Iso639["fre"].name # => "French"
Iso639["fre"].english_name # => "French"
Iso639["fre"].french_name # => "français"
# Lookup by alpha-3-terminology codes
Iso639["fra"] # => "French"
Iso639["fra"].alpha2 # => "fr"
Iso639["fra"].alpha3 # => "fre"
Iso639["fra"].alpha3_bibliographic # => "fre"
Iso639["fra"].alpha3_terminology # => "fra"
Iso639["fra"].name # => "French"
Iso639["fra"].english_name # => "French"
Iso639["fra"].french_name # => "français"
# Lookup by name
Iso639["German"] # => "German"
Iso639["German"].alpha2 # => "de"
Iso639["German"].alpha3 # => "ger"
Iso639["German"].alpha3_bibliographic # => "ger"
Iso639["German"].alpha3_terminology # => "deu"
Iso639["German"].name # => "German"
Iso639["German"].english_name # => "German"
Iso639["German"].french_name # => "allemand"
# Retrieve alpha-2 codes
Iso639["English"].alpha2 # => "en"
Iso639["fre"].alpha2 # => "fr"
Iso639["deu"].alpha2 # => "de"
Iso639["pl"].alpha2 # => "pl"
# Retrieve alpha-3 codes
Iso639["english"].alpha3 # => "eng"
Iso639["fr"].alpha3 # => "fre"
Iso639["ger"].alpha3 # => "ger"
# Retrieve names
Iso639["eng"].name # => "English"
Iso639["fr"].name # => "French"
Iso639["de"].name # => "German"
Iso639["deu"].name # => "German"
Iso639["ger"].name # => "German"
Iso639["german"].name # => "German"
Iso639["GeRmAn"].name # => "German"Versioning
Semantic Versioning 2.0 as defined at http://semver.org.