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Pherrymason
Pherrymason

Reputation: 8068

Strange language codes in Accept-Language header

I'm detecting user accepted languages through $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'] and I'm getting strange language and country codes.

Language codes I've found:

I've checked some code language listings and haven't found these codes:

I understand that es-es_tradnl means Spanish traditional, but any clue about es-419 nor '*'...
Any clues about where does that codes come from?

Edit, question extended:
Where can I find a full list of language codes?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3618

Answers (3)

Erx_VB.NExT.Coder
Erx_VB.NExT.Coder

Reputation: 4856

Actually, I would like to point you directly at the resource. If you go here (link below) you will find both those cryptic looking language codes.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc233968.aspx

I hope this helps, since the others did not have the link handy for you, I thought I would add it. There is a list of 449 language codes (which is just a language code and country/region code combined).

That list is updated a few times a year, check the parent page of the listing I gave you if you want to see the update history. Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 1

Julian Reschke
Julian Reschke

Reputation: 42045

HTTPbis, Part 3, Section 2.4_

The name space of language subtags is administered by the IANA (see http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry).

Upvotes: 3

kapa
kapa

Reputation: 78731

HTTP/1.1: Header Field Definitions:

The special range "*", if present in the Accept-Language field, matches every tag not matched by any other range present in the Accept-Language field.

As I already mentioned in the comments, es-419 stands for

Spanish appropriate for the Latin America and Caribbean region, using the UN region code

from Wikipedia

Upvotes: 2

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