Package org.wikidata.wdtk.datamodel.interfaces

Class WikimediaLanguageCodes

java.lang.Object

org.wikidata.wdtk.datamodel.interfaces.WikimediaLanguageCodes

public class WikimediaLanguageCodes
extends java.lang.Object

This class helps to interpret Wikimedia language codes in terms of official BCP 47 language codes. Unforatunately, the two systems don't agree in all cases. This class incorporates several exceptions, where Wikimedia uses non-standard language codes, including but not limited to the documented exceptional language codes. When available, the IANA-registered codes are used, but in some cases new codes are constructed according to the standard rules.

Author:

Markus Kroetzsch

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
WikimediaLanguageCodes()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static java.lang.String	getLanguageCode(java.lang.String wikimediaLanguageCode)	Get a BCP 47 language code for the given Wikimedia language code.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

WikimediaLanguageCodes

public WikimediaLanguageCodes()

Method Detail

getLanguageCode

public static java.lang.String getLanguageCode(java.lang.String wikimediaLanguageCode)

Get a BCP 47 language code for the given Wikimedia language code.

Parameters:

wikimediaLanguageCode - the language code as used by Wikimedia

Returns:

the BCP 47 language code

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if the given Wikimedia language code is not known. In particular, the method will not assume that unknown codes agree with BCP 47 by default (since they have no reason to do this).