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l10n Locales (HTML) select box and data (SQL)

Posted by bcmoney on March 1, 2010 in E-Commerce, HTML, Semantic Web, SQL, XML with 7 Comments

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L10N is an acronym that stands for Localization (coming from the 10 letters in between “L” and “N” in the word Localization). L10N is a combination of software and language targeted to a specific region’s (or more specifically – locale’s) dialect and/or socio-cultural, politically correct, visually appealing representation. The standards and specifications most commonly used to implement or develop support for L10N is ISO 3166.

While a complete list of locales is available on the ISO’s ISO-3166 website, there are no particularly easy-to-use versions of the data except for a zipped XML file. For convenience’s sake, we’re offering an L10N SQL script in an easy-to-use 2-column format, and an HTML select drop-down version below:
L10N code:

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i18n Languages (HTML) Drop-Down Box

Posted by bcmoney on February 16, 2009 in HTML with 1 Comment

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Well when it comes to finding answers to coding-related issues, or finding things in general on the web, I’m usually pretty impressive at coming up with great finds of just about anything i’m looking for. If the usual Search Engines don’t work you can always try a message forum, then finally if all else fails, leave it to chance with question answering services like StackOverflow, Yahoo! Answers, Ask, Aardvark or Wolfram.

This one, however, stumped me completely!

For the life of me, I could not find an existing drop-down box that shows a *COMPLETE* Listing of i18n standards-compliant languages, with accompanying ISO Tags for the Identification of Languages in the VALUE attribute of the OPTION entries in the SELECT drop-down box.

In fact, I’m not even sure if such a thing existed before now, but I just feel like it does somewhere but frustratingly enough, I was unable to find it… So, I looked for a table showing the 2-3 letter codes per country, because I KNEW I had seen one of these before, and used one just a few months earlier for an unrelated project…

Well, long story short, after several redirections I finally found this table called the Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages and came up with the following Drop-Down box (enjoy!):

i18n code:

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