dialect-po/lang_update

Language Names Updater

This script tries to pull language names from the sources:

• Unicode CLDR
• Google Translate

How to use

git clone https://github.com/dialect-app/po
cd po/lang_update
python lang_update.py

lang_update.py should be run with po/lang_update as the working directory and will not work as expected otherwise.

-g or --google can be passed to force the usage of Google Translate as the source for language names.

You can also pass a language code to only update one language:

python lang_update.py "ca"

How to contribute

If you would like to work on language names, please contribute to Unicode CLDR.

If you decide that the language names from Unicode CLDR are not good enough and feel like you could do a better job, you can open an issue at dialect-app/po and continue updating your translation as per usual. You could also instead add your language code to the EXCLUDE_LIST in the lang_update.py script and send a PR.

The lang_update.py script has a few things you could help with as well:

• The EXCLUDE_LIST list could be expanded or shortened depending on the accuracy of Unicode CLDR project's language names for a particular language. You could do this by checking cldr-json. For example: French Unicode CLDR languages.json . The link format is:

  https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr-json/blob/main/cldr-json/cldr-localenames-full/main/{language_code_here}/languages.json
  

• If language names should be capitalized in your language, add the language code to CAPS_LIST.
• If your language is named differently in the Unicode CLDR project, add a mapping in CLDR_NAMES.