Adding list of languages

[fenuks]

Hi,
I think it would be great if this app also have a languages list (and LanguageField). It's highly related to countries and very often when you need list of countries, you would also need languages list. Moreover, for time being, django don't have good app with translated list of languages (at least I could not find one). Easy to parse registry of languages can be found at iana.org.

[SmileyChris]

I'm not against this, but I'm not completely convinced either.

Using an ISO approved list of languages would be an acceptable addition, I guess. It isn't something I'm particularly interested in adding but if someone wants to champion it then be my guest.

[fenuks]

I wrote a script to generate list of languages from site mentioned above. By default is only fetches languages with two characters long codes, since longer are redundant. You can run it as normal script, ./generate_langs.py and it will save ready-to-use file langs.py in parent directory. I didn't write LangField, but it will be pretty much the same as CountryField.

BTW, is the country list generated or manually created? It would be quite nice to have an alternative countries list with continents and maybe languages assigned to each country.

[SmileyChris]

I'd be more keen to see this generated from an official ISO 639-2 list. Otherwise you start opening a can of worms as to what should be in the list and what shouldn't.

The country list is generated from a CSV of the official ISO 3166-1 list: data.py file is executed which self-generates (see https://github.com/SmileyChris/django-countries/blob/master/django_countries/data.py).

Stepping back, I'm wondering what the real benefit is of having a large list of languages if they can't be tied to a country. So for now, I'm going to say the only way this will get added is if there can be a relationship between countries and languages -- otherwise it could be a totally standalone app.

[SmileyChris]

If a more concrete proposal comes in, the issue can be addressed again. Since this one is quite abstract I'm going to close it for now.

[Oyabi]

You can maybe use : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc233982.aspx