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Overview

Package language implements BCP 47 language tags and related functionality.

The most important function of package language is to match a list of user-preferred languages to a list of supported languages. It alleviates the developer of dealing with the complexity of this process and provides the user with the best experience (see https://blog.golang.org/matchlang).

Matching preferred against supported languages

A Matcher for an application that supports English, Australian English, Danish, and standard Mandarin can be created as follows:

var matcher = language.NewMatcher([]language.Tag{
    language.English,   // The first language is used as fallback.
    language.MustParse("en-AU"),
    language.Danish,
    language.Chinese,
})

This list of supported languages is typically implied by the languages for which there exists translations of the user interface.

User-preferred languages usually come as a comma-separated list of BCP 47 language tags. The MatchString finds best matches for such strings:

handler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    lang, _ := r.Cookie("lang")
    accept := r.Header.Get("Accept-Language")
    tag, _ := language.MatchStrings(matcher, lang.String(), accept)

    // tag should now be used for the initialization of any
    // locale-specific service.
}

The Matcher's Match method can be used to match Tags directly.

Matchers are aware of the intricacies of equivalence between languages, such as deprecated subtags, legacy tags, macro languages, mutual intelligibility between scripts and languages, and transparently passing BCP 47 user configuration. For instance, it will know that a reader of Bokmål Danish can read Norwegian and will know that Cantonese ("yue") is a good match for "zh-HK".

Using match results

To guarantee a consistent user experience to the user it is important to use the same language tag for the selection of any locale-specific services. For example, it is utterly confusing to substitute spelled-out numbers or dates in one language in text of another language. More subtly confusing is using the wrong sorting order or casing algorithm for a certain language.

All the packages in x/text that provide locale-specific services
(e.g. collate, cases) should be initialized with the tag that was
obtained at the start of an interaction with the user.

Note that Tag that is returned by Match and MatchString may differ from any of the supported languages, as it may contain carried over settings from the user tags. This may be inconvenient when your application has some additional locale-specific data for your supported languages. Match and MatchString both return the index of the matched supported tag to simplify associating such data with the matched tag.

Canonicalization

If one uses the Matcher to compare languages one does not need to worry about canonicalization.

The meaning of a Tag varies per application. The language package therefore delays canonicalization and preserves information as much as possible. The Matcher, however, will always take into account that two different tags may represent the same language.

By default, only legacy and deprecated tags are converted into their canonical equivalent. All other information is preserved. This approach makes the confidence scores more accurate and allows matchers to distinguish between variants that are otherwise lost.

As a consequence, two tags that should be treated as identical according to BCP 47 or CLDR, like "en-Latn" and "en", will be represented differently. The Matcher handles such distinctions, though, and is aware of the equivalence relations. The CanonType type can be used to alter the canonicalization form.

References

BCP 47 - Tags for Identifying Languages http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47

Index

Constants

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const (
	// Replace deprecated base languages with their preferred replacements.
	DeprecatedBase CanonType = 1 << iota
	// Replace deprecated scripts with their preferred replacements.
	DeprecatedScript
	// Replace deprecated regions with their preferred replacements.
	DeprecatedRegion
	// Remove redundant scripts.
	SuppressScript
	// Normalize legacy encodings. This includes legacy languages defined in
	// CLDR as well as bibliographic codes defined in ISO-639.
	Legacy
	// Map the dominant language of a macro language group to the macro language
	// subtag. For example cmn -> zh.
	Macro
	// The CLDR flag should be used if full compatibility with CLDR is required.
	// There are a few cases where language.Tag may differ from CLDR. To follow all
	// of CLDR's suggestions, use All|CLDR.
	CLDR

	// Raw can be used to Compose or Parse without Canonicalization.
	Raw CanonType = 0

	// Replace all deprecated tags with their preferred replacements.
	Deprecated = DeprecatedBase | DeprecatedScript | DeprecatedRegion

	// All canonicalizations recommended by BCP 47.
	BCP47 = Deprecated | SuppressScript

	// All canonicalizations.
	All = BCP47 | Legacy | Macro

	// Default is the canonicalization used by Parse, Make and Compose. To
	// preserve as much information as possible, canonicalizations that remove
	// potentially valuable information are not included. The Matcher is
	// designed to recognize similar tags that would be the same if
	// they were canonicalized using All.
	Default = Deprecated | Legacy
)
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const CLDRVersion = "32"

CLDRVersion is the CLDR version from which the tables in this package are derived.

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const NumCompactTags = 768

NumCompactTags is the number of common tags. The maximum tag is NumCompactTags-1.

Variables

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var ErrMissingLikelyTagsData = errors.New("missing likely tags data")

ErrMissingLikelyTagsData indicates no information was available to compute likely values of missing tags.

Functions

func CompactIndex

func CompactIndex(t Tag) (index int, ok bool)

CompactIndex returns an index, where 0 <= index < NumCompactTags, for tags for which data exists in the text repository. The index will change over time and should not be stored in persistent storage. Extensions, except for the 'va' type of the 'u' extension, are ignored. It will return 0, false if no compact tag exists, where 0 is the index for the root language (Und).

Types

type Base

type Base struct {
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

Base is an ISO 639 language code, used for encoding the base language of a language tag.

func MustParseBase

func MustParseBase(s string) Base

MustParseBase is like ParseBase, but panics if the given base cannot be parsed. It simplifies safe initialization of Base values.

func ParseBase

func ParseBase(s string) (Base, error)

ParseBase parses a 2- or 3-letter ISO 639 code. It returns a ValueError if s is a well-formed but unknown language identifier or another error if another error occurred.

func (Base) ISO3

func (b Base) ISO3() string

ISO3 returns the ISO 639-3 language code.

func (Base) IsPrivateUse

func (b Base) IsPrivateUse() bool

IsPrivateUse reports whether this language code is reserved for private use.

func (Base) String

func (b Base) String() string

String returns the BCP 47 representation of the langID. Use b as variable name, instead of id, to ensure the variable used is consistent with that of Base in which this type is embedded.

type CanonType

type CanonType int

CanonType can be used to enable or disable various types of canonicalization.

func (CanonType) Canonicalize

func (c CanonType) Canonicalize(t Tag) (Tag, error)

Canonicalize returns the canonicalized equivalent of the tag.

func (CanonType) Compose

func (c CanonType) Compose(part ...interface{}) (t Tag, err error)

Compose creates a Tag from individual parts, which may be of type Tag, Base, Script, Region, Variant, []Variant, Extension, []Extension or error. If a Base, Script or Region or slice of type Variant or Extension is passed more than once, the latter will overwrite the former. Variants and Extensions are accumulated, but if two extensions of the same type are passed, the latter will replace the former. A Tag overwrites all former values and typically only makes sense as the first argument. The resulting tag is returned after canonicalizing using CanonType c. If one or more errors are encountered, one of the errors is returned.

func (CanonType) Make

func (c CanonType) Make(s string) Tag

Make is a convenience wrapper for c.Parse that omits the error. In case of an error, a sensible default is returned.

func (CanonType) MustParse

func (c CanonType) MustParse(s string) Tag

MustParse is like Parse, but panics if the given BCP 47 tag cannot be parsed. It simplifies safe initialization of Tag values.

func (CanonType) Parse

func (c CanonType) Parse(s string) (t Tag, err error)

Parse parses the given BCP 47 string and returns a valid Tag. If parsing failed it returns an error and any part of the tag that could be parsed. If parsing succeeded but an unknown value was found, it returns ValueError. The Tag returned in this case is just stripped of the unknown value. All other values are preserved. It accepts tags in the BCP 47 format and extensions to this standard defined in http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/#Unicode_Language_and_Locale_Identifiers. The resulting tag is canonicalized using the the canonicalization type c.

type Confidence

type Confidence int

Confidence indicates the level of certainty for a given return value. For example, Serbian may be written in Cyrillic or Latin script. The confidence level indicates whether a value was explicitly specified, whether it is typically the only possible value, or whether there is an ambiguity.

const (
	No    Confidence = iota // full confidence that there was no match
	Low                     // most likely value picked out of a set of alternatives
	High                    // value is generally assumed to be the correct match
	Exact                   // exact match or explicitly specified value
)

func Comprehends

func Comprehends(speaker, alternative Tag) Confidence

Comprehends reports the confidence score for a speaker of a given language to being able to comprehend the written form of an alternative language.

func (Confidence) String

func (c Confidence) String() string

type Coverage

type Coverage interface {
	// Tags returns the list of supported tags.
	Tags() []Tag

	// BaseLanguages returns the list of supported base languages.
	BaseLanguages() []Base

	// Scripts returns the list of supported scripts.
	Scripts() []Script

	// Regions returns the list of supported regions.
	Regions() []Region
}

The Coverage interface is used to define the level of coverage of an internationalization service. Note that not all types are supported by all services. As lists may be generated on the fly, it is recommended that users of a Coverage cache the results.

var (
	// Supported defines a Coverage that lists all supported subtags. Tags
	// always returns nil.
	Supported Coverage = allSubtags{}
)

func NewCoverage

func NewCoverage(list ...interface{}) Coverage

NewCoverage returns a Coverage for the given lists. It is typically used by packages providing internationalization services to define their level of coverage. A list may be of type []T or func() []T, where T is either Tag, Base, Script or Region. The returned Coverage derives the value for Bases from Tags if no func or slice for []Base is specified. For other unspecified types the returned Coverage will return nil for the respective methods.

type Extension

type Extension struct {
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

Extension is a single BCP 47 extension.

func ParseExtension

func ParseExtension(s string) (e Extension, err error)

ParseExtension parses s as an extension and returns it on success.

func (Extension) String

func (e Extension) String() string

String returns the string representation of the extension, including the type tag.

func (Extension) Tokens

func (e Extension) Tokens() []string

Tokens returns the list of tokens of e.

func (Extension) Type

func (e Extension) Type() byte

Type returns the one-byte extension type of e. It returns 0 for the zero exception.

type MatchOption

type MatchOption func(*matcher)

A MatchOption configures a Matcher.

func PreferSameScript

func PreferSameScript(preferSame bool) MatchOption

PreferSameScript will, in the absence of a match, result in the first preferred tag with the same script as a supported tag to match this supported tag. The default is currently true, but this may change in the future.

type Matcher

type Matcher interface {
	Match(t ...Tag) (tag Tag, index int, c Confidence)
}

Matcher is the interface that wraps the Match method.

Match returns the best match for any of the given tags, along with a unique index associated with the returned tag and a confidence score.

func NewMatcher

func NewMatcher(t []Tag, options ...MatchOption) Matcher

NewMatcher returns a Matcher that matches an ordered list of preferred tags against a list of supported tags based on written intelligibility, closeness of dialect, equivalence of subtags and various other rules. It is initialized with the list of supported tags. The first element is used as the default value in case no match is found.

Its Match method matches the first of the given Tags to reach a certain confidence threshold. The tags passed to Match should therefore be specified in order of preference. Extensions are ignored for matching.

The index returned by the Match method corresponds to the index of the matched tag in t, but is augmented with the Unicode extension ('u')of the corresponding preferred tag. This allows user locale options to be passed transparently.

type Region

type Region struct {
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

Region is an ISO 3166-1 or UN M.49 code for representing countries and regions.

func EncodeM49

func EncodeM49(r int) (Region, error)

EncodeM49 returns the Region for the given UN M.49 code. It returns an error if r is not a valid code.

func MustParseRegion

func MustParseRegion(s string) Region

MustParseRegion is like ParseRegion, but panics if the given region cannot be parsed. It simplifies safe initialization of Region values.

func ParseRegion

func ParseRegion(s string) (Region, error)

ParseRegion parses a 2- or 3-letter ISO 3166-1 or a UN M.49 code. It returns a ValueError if s is a well-formed but unknown region identifier or another error if another error occurred.

func (Region) Canonicalize

func (r Region) Canonicalize() Region

Canonicalize returns the region or a possible replacement if the region is deprecated. It will not return a replacement for deprecated regions that are split into multiple regions.

func (Region) Contains

func (r Region) Contains(c Region) bool

Contains returns whether Region c is contained by Region r. It returns true if c == r.

func (Region) ISO3

func (r Region) ISO3() string

ISO3 returns the 3-letter ISO code of r. Note that not all regions have a 3-letter ISO code. In such cases this method returns "ZZZ".

func (Region) IsCountry

func (r Region) IsCountry() bool

IsCountry returns whether this region is a country or autonomous area. This includes non-standard definitions from CLDR.

func (Region) IsGroup

func (r Region) IsGroup() bool

IsGroup returns whether this region defines a collection of regions. This includes non-standard definitions from CLDR.

func (Region) IsPrivateUse

func (r Region) IsPrivateUse() bool

IsPrivateUse reports whether r has the ISO 3166 User-assigned status. This may include private-use tags that are assigned by CLDR and used in this implementation. So IsPrivateUse and IsCountry can be simultaneously true.

func (Region) M49

func (r Region) M49() int

M49 returns the UN M.49 encoding of r, or 0 if this encoding is not defined for r.

func (Region) String

func (r Region) String() string

String returns the BCP 47 representation for the region. It returns "ZZ" for an unspecified region.

func (Region) TLD

func (r Region) TLD() (Region, error)

TLD returns the country code top-level domain (ccTLD). UK is returned for GB. In all other cases it returns either the region itself or an error.

This method may return an error for a region for which there exists a canonical form with a ccTLD. To get that ccTLD canonicalize r first. The region will already be canonicalized it was obtained from a Tag that was obtained using any of the default methods.

type Script

type Script struct {
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

Script is a 4-letter ISO 15924 code for representing scripts. It is idiomatically represented in title case.

func MustParseScript

func MustParseScript(s string) Script

MustParseScript is like ParseScript, but panics if the given script cannot be parsed. It simplifies safe initialization of Script values.

func ParseScript

func ParseScript(s string) (Script, error)

ParseScript parses a 4-letter ISO 15924 code. It returns a ValueError if s is a well-formed but unknown script identifier or another error if another error occurred.

func (Script) IsPrivateUse

func (s Script) IsPrivateUse() bool

IsPrivateUse reports whether this script code is reserved for private use.

func (Script) String

func (s Script) String() string

String returns the script code in title case. It returns "Zzzz" for an unspecified script.

type Tag

type Tag struct {
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

Tag represents a BCP 47 language tag. It is used to specify an instance of a specific language or locale. All language tag values are guaranteed to be well-formed.

var (
	Und Tag = Tag{}

	Afrikaans            Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  af
	Amharic              Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  am
	Arabic               Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  ar
	ModernStandardArabic Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  ar-001
	Azerbaijani          Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  az
	Bulgarian            Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  bg
	Bengali              Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  bn
	Catalan              Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  ca
	Czech                Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  cs
	Danish               Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  da
	German               Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  de
	Greek                Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  el
	English              Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  en
	AmericanEnglish      Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  en-US
	BritishEnglish       Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  en-GB
	Spanish              Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  es
	EuropeanSpanish      Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  es-ES
	LatinAmericanSpanish Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  es-419
	Estonian             Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  et
	Persian              Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  fa
	Finnish              Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  fi
	Filipino             Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  fil
	French               Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  fr
	CanadianFrench       Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  fr-CA
	Gujarati             Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  gu
	Hebrew               Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  he
	Hindi                Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  hi
	Croatian             Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  hr
	Hungarian            Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  hu
	Armenian             Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  hy
	Indonesian           Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  id
	Icelandic            Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  is
	Italian              Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  it
	Japanese             Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  ja
	Georgian             Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  ka
	Kazakh               Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  kk
	Khmer                Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  km
	Kannada              Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  kn
	Korean               Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  ko
	Kirghiz              Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  ky
	Lao                  Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  lo
	Lithuanian           Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  lt
	Latvian              Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  lv
	Macedonian           Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  mk
	Malayalam            Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  ml
	Mongolian            Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  mn
	Marathi              Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  mr
	Malay                Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  ms
	Burmese              Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  my
	Nepali               Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  ne
	Dutch                Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  nl
	Norwegian            Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  no
	Punjabi              Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  pa
	Polish               Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  pl
	Portuguese           Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  pt
	BrazilianPortuguese  Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  pt-BR
	EuropeanPortuguese   Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  pt-PT
	Romanian             Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  ro
	Russian              Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  ru
	Sinhala              Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  si
	Slovak               Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  sk
	Slovenian            Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  sl
	Albanian             Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  sq
	Serbian              Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  sr
	SerbianLatin         Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  sr-Latn
	Swedish              Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  sv
	Swahili              Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  sw
	Tamil                Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  ta
	Telugu               Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  te
	Thai                 Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  th
	Turkish              Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  tr
	Ukrainian            Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  uk
	Urdu                 Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  ur
	Uzbek                Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  uz
	Vietnamese           Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  vi
	Chinese              Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  zh
	SimplifiedChinese    Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  zh-Hans
	TraditionalChinese   Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  zh-Hant
	Zulu                 Tag = Tag{/* contains filtered or unexported fields */} //  zu
)

func Compose

func Compose(part ...interface{}) (t Tag, err error)

Compose creates a Tag from individual parts, which may be of type Tag, Base, Script, Region, Variant, []Variant, Extension, []Extension or error. If a Base, Script or Region or slice of type Variant or Extension is passed more than once, the latter will overwrite the former. Variants and Extensions are accumulated, but if two extensions of the same type are passed, the latter will replace the former. A Tag overwrites all former values and typically only makes sense as the first argument. The resulting tag is returned after canonicalizing using the Default CanonType. If one or more errors are encountered, one of the errors is returned.

func Make

func Make(s string) Tag

Make is a convenience wrapper for Parse that omits the error. In case of an error, a sensible default is returned.

func MatchStrings

func MatchStrings(m Matcher, lang ...string) (tag Tag, index int)

MatchStrings parses and matches the given strings until one of them matches the language in the Matcher. A string may be an Accept-Language header as handled by ParseAcceptLanguage. The default language is returned if no other language matched.

func MustParse

func MustParse(s string) Tag

MustParse is like Parse, but panics if the given BCP 47 tag cannot be parsed. It simplifies safe initialization of Tag values.

func Parse

func Parse(s string) (t Tag, err error)

Parse parses the given BCP 47 string and returns a valid Tag. If parsing failed it returns an error and any part of the tag that could be parsed. If parsing succeeded but an unknown value was found, it returns ValueError. The Tag returned in this case is just stripped of the unknown value. All other values are preserved. It accepts tags in the BCP 47 format and extensions to this standard defined in http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/#Unicode_Language_and_Locale_Identifiers. The resulting tag is canonicalized using the default canonicalization type.

func ParseAcceptLanguage

func ParseAcceptLanguage(s string) (tag []Tag, q []float32, err error)

ParseAcceptLanguage parses the contents of an Accept-Language header as defined in http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt and returns a list of Tags and a list of corresponding quality weights. It is more permissive than RFC 2616 and may return non-nil slices even if the input is not valid. The Tags will be sorted by highest weight first and then by first occurrence. Tags with a weight of zero will be dropped. An error will be returned if the input could not be parsed.

func (Tag) Base

func (t Tag) Base() (Base, Confidence)

Base returns the base language of the language tag. If the base language is unspecified, an attempt will be made to infer it from the context. It uses a variant of CLDR's Add Likely Subtags algorithm. This is subject to change.

func (Tag) Extension

func (t Tag) Extension(x byte) (ext Extension, ok bool)

Extension returns the extension of type x for tag t. It will return false for ok if t does not have the requested extension. The returned extension will be invalid in this case.

func (Tag) Extensions

func (t Tag) Extensions() []Extension

Extensions returns all extensions of t.

func (Tag) IsRoot

func (t Tag) IsRoot() bool

IsRoot returns true if t is equal to language "und".

func (Tag) MarshalText

func (t Tag) MarshalText() (text []byte, err error)

MarshalText implements encoding.TextMarshaler.

func (Tag) Parent

func (t Tag) Parent() Tag

Parent returns the CLDR parent of t. In CLDR, missing fields in data for a specific language are substituted with fields from the parent language. The parent for a language may change for newer versions of CLDR.

func (Tag) Raw

func (t Tag) Raw() (b Base, s Script, r Region)

Raw returns the raw base language, script and region, without making an attempt to infer their values.

func (Tag) Region

func (t Tag) Region() (Region, Confidence)

Region returns the region for the language tag. If it was not explicitly given, it will infer a most likely candidate from the context. It uses a variant of CLDR's Add Likely Subtags algorithm. This is subject to change.

func (Tag) Script

func (t Tag) Script() (Script, Confidence)

Script infers the script for the language tag. If it was not explicitly given, it will infer a most likely candidate. If more than one script is commonly used for a language, the most likely one is returned with a low confidence indication. For example, it returns (Cyrl, Low) for Serbian. If a script cannot be inferred (Zzzz, No) is returned. We do not use Zyyy (undetermined) as one would suspect from the IANA registry for BCP 47. In a Unicode context Zyyy marks common characters (like 1, 2, 3, '.', etc.) and is therefore more like multiple scripts. See http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr24/#Values for more details. Zzzz is also used for unknown value in CLDR. (Zzzz, Exact) is returned if Zzzz was explicitly specified. Note that an inferred script is never guaranteed to be the correct one. Latin is almost exclusively used for Afrikaans, but Arabic has been used for some texts in the past. Also, the script that is commonly used may change over time. It uses a variant of CLDR's Add Likely Subtags algorithm. This is subject to change.

func (Tag) SetTypeForKey

func (t Tag) SetTypeForKey(key, value string) (Tag, error)

SetTypeForKey returns a new Tag with the key set to type, where key and type are of the allowed values defined for the Unicode locale extension ('u') in http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/#Unicode_Language_and_Locale_Identifiers. An empty value removes an existing pair with the same key.

func (Tag) String

func (t Tag) String() string

String returns the canonical string representation of the language tag.

func (Tag) TypeForKey

func (t Tag) TypeForKey(key string) string

TypeForKey returns the type associated with the given key, where key and type are of the allowed values defined for the Unicode locale extension ('u') in http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/#Unicode_Language_and_Locale_Identifiers. TypeForKey will traverse the inheritance chain to get the correct value.

func (*Tag) UnmarshalText

func (t *Tag) UnmarshalText(text []byte) error

UnmarshalText implements encoding.TextUnmarshaler.

func (Tag) Variants

func (t Tag) Variants() []Variant

Variant returns the variants specified explicitly for this language tag. or nil if no variant was specified.

type ValueError

type ValueError struct {
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

ValueError is returned by any of the parsing functions when the input is well-formed but the respective subtag is not recognized as a valid value.

func (ValueError) Error

func (e ValueError) Error() string

Error implements the error interface.

func (ValueError) Subtag

func (e ValueError) Subtag() string

Subtag returns the subtag for which the error occurred.

type Variant

type Variant struct {
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

Variant represents a registered variant of a language as defined by BCP 47.

func ParseVariant

func ParseVariant(s string) (Variant, error)

ParseVariant parses and returns a Variant. An error is returned if s is not a valid variant.

func (Variant) String

func (v Variant) String() string

String returns the string representation of the variant.

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