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langtable
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Purpose of this package
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langtable is used to guess reasonable defaults for locale, keyboard,
territory, …, if part of that information is already known. For
example, guess the territory and the keyboard layout if the language
is known or guess the language and keyboard layout if the territory is
already known.

License
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GPLv3+, see the included file “COPYING”.

Translations for languages and territory names are from CLDR which is
governed by the Unicode Terms of Use, see the included file
“unicode-license.txt”. The short name for this Unicode license is
“MIT”. See:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:MIT?rd=Licensing/MIT#Modern_Style_without_sublicense_.28Unicode.29

Installation
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To install langtable, run

     make install DESTDIR=/usr

To create a distribution tarball run

     make dist

To run the test cases in the source directory:

     make test

How to use it
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import langtable

Functions in the public API:

     parse_locale()
     list_locales()
     list_keyboards()
     list_common_languages()
     list_common_locales()
     list_common_keyboards()
     list_consolefonts()
     list_inputmethods()
     list_timezones()
     list_scripts()
     language_name()
     territory_name()
     timezone_name()
     languageId()
     territoryId()
     supports_ascii()
     list_all_languages()
     list_all_locales()
     list_all_keyboards()
     list_all_territories()
     list_all_timezones()
     list_all_scripts()
     list_all_input_methods()
     list_all_console_fonts()

Some examples to show the usage are found in the documentation
of the public functions in langtable.py.

(Some more examples are in the test cases in the file test_cases.py):