locale-code

Simple interface for ISO-639-1 language codes and ISO-3166-1-alpha-2 country codes.

Install

npm install locale-code

Methods

getLanguageCode(code)

• @param code {string}
• @return {string}

Lookup language code from locale code

getLanguageName(code)

• @param code {string}
• @return {string}

Lookup language english name by code

getLanguageNativeName(code)

• @param code {string}
• @return {string}

Lookup language native name by code

validateLanguageCode(code)

• @param code {string}
• @return {boolean}

Check whether the given code is in the list of ISO-639-1

getLanguages(codes)

• @param codes {array}
• @return {array}

Get the array of the language objects by the given codes

getCountryCode(code)

• @param code {string}
• @return {string}

Lookup country code from locale code

getCountryName(code)

• @param code {string}
• @return {string}

Lookup country name by code

validateCountryCode(code)

• @param code {string}
• @return {boolean}

Check whether the given code is in the list of ISO-3166-1-alpha-2

validate(code)

• @param code {string}
• @return {boolean}

Check whether the given code is in the list of ISO-639-1 and ISO-3166-1-alpha-2

Usage

var  LocaleCode = require('locale-code')

console.log(LocaleCode.getLanguageCode('en-US')); // 'en'

console.log(LocaleCode.getLanguageName('zh-CN')); // 'Chinese'

console.log(LocaleCode.getLanguageNativeName('zh-CN')); // '中文'

console.log(LocaleCode.getLanguageZhName('es-ES')); // '西班牙语'

console.log(LocaleCode.validateLanguageCode('en-US')); // true

console.log(LocaleCode.validateLanguageCode('bb-US')); // false

console.log(LocaleCode.getLanguages(['en-US','zh-CN'])); 
// [{code:'en-US', name:'English', nativeName:'English', zhName:'英语'}, {code:'zh-CN', name:'Chinese', nativeName:'中文', zhName:'中文'}]

console.log(LocaleCode.getCountryCode('en-US')); // 'US'

console.log(LocaleCode.getCountryName('en-US')); // 'United States'

console.log(LocaleCode.validateCountryCode('en-US')); // true

console.log(LocaleCode.validateCountryCode('en-ZZ')); // false

console.log(LocaleCode.validate('en-US')); // true

console.log(LocaleCode.validate('en_US')); // false

console.log(LocaleCode.validate('bb-XX')); // false