Module:Lang/doc explained

This module exists primarily to provide correct html markup for non–English language text where that text is used in the English Wikipedia. It has a secondary purpose of providing correct visual rendering for this non-English text. The module was developed to consolidate processing for, the (most), and templates into a single source and to use a clearly defined data set extracted from international standards. It provides error checking and reporting to ensure that the html rendered is correct for browsers and screen readers.

Other templates that get language name support from this module are:

Data set

The data set is specified in and its included data modules:

• language tag-and-name data
  • – from IANA language-subtag-registry file
• language script data
  • – from IANA language-subtag-registry file
• language region data
  • – from IANA language-subtag-registry file
• language variant data
  • – from IANA language-subtag-registry file
• suppressed-script data
  • – from IANA language-subtag-registry file

The data set also includes supplementary data modules:

• override and other non-standard data
  • – maps three character ISO 639-2, -2T, -3 codes to two character ISO 639-1 codes – from Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages
  • – reversed language tag-and-name data so that the language name is the key and the language tag is the value

Testcases

• (run)
• category_from_tag
  • (run)
  • (A–H) (run)
  • (I–N) (run)
  • (O–Z) (run)
  • (run)
• name_from_tag
  • (run)
  • (A–H) (run)
  • (I–N) (run)
  • (O–Z) (run)
  • (run)
• tag_from_name
  • (run)
  • (A–H) (run)
  • (I–N) (run)
  • (O–Z) (run)
  • (run)

See also

MoS on foreign words: