Module:Lang

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This module exists primarily to provide correct HTML markup for non–English language text where that text is used in the English Wikipedia. It has a secondary purpose of providing correct visual rendering for this non-English text. The module was developed to consolidate processing for {{lang}}, {{langx}}, and {{transliteration}} templates into a single source and to use a clearly defined data set extracted from international standards. It provides error checking and reporting to ensure that the HTML rendered is correct for browsers and screen readers.

Other templates that get language name support from this module are:

{{native name}}

Data set

The data set is specified in Module:Lang/data and its included data modules:

language tag-and-name data
- Module:Lang/data/iana languages – from IANA language-subtag-registry file
language script data
- Module:Lang/data/iana scripts – from IANA language-subtag-registry file
language region data
- Module:Lang/data/iana regions – from IANA language-subtag-registry file
language variant data
- Module:Lang/data/iana variants – from IANA language-subtag-registry file
suppressed-script data
- Module:Lang/data/iana suppressed scripts – from IANA language-subtag-registry file

The data set also includes supplementary data modules:

override and other non-standard data
- Module:Lang/ISO 639 synonyms – maps three character ISO 639-2, -2T, -3 codes to two character ISO 639-1 codes – from Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages
- Module:Lang/tag from name – reversed language tag-and-name data so that the language name is the key and the language tag is the value

Testcases

Tracking categories

--[[
This is an experiment to see what is required to consolodate all of the myriad {{lang-xx}} templates
and their subtemplates into a single module with a data table
]]

require('Module:No globals');
local getArgs = require('Module:Arguments').getArgs;

local p = {};


--[=[-------------------------< L A N G >----------------------------------------------------------------------

{{lang-es}} has parameters:
{{{1}}} text - required
{{{link}}} or {{{links}}} defaults to 'yes'
{{{lit}}} literal translation

{{language with name}} has parameters:
{{{1}}} iso language code - required
{{{2}}} language name in English - superfluous?
{{{3}}} text - required
{{{4}}} or {{{lit}}} literal translation
{{{link}}} or {{{links}}} set to 'no' disables '{{{2}} language' wikilinks
{{{rtl}}} passed through to {{lang}}
{{{nocat}}} passed through to {{lang}}

{{lang}} has parameters:
{{{1}}} iso language code - required
{{{2}}} text - required
{{{rtl}}} if set to any value, set dir="rtl" attribute and inserts &lrm; after the </span> tag
{{{nocat}}} if set to any value, disables categorization

How it works now:
	1. {{lang-es}} receives text as {{{1}}} to which it adds italic markup, sets |links to {{{link}}} or {{{links}}} or yes, sets |lit to {{{lit}}}, and calls {{language with name}}.  {{{rtl}}} ignored for this example
	2. {{language with name}} renders [[Spanish language|Spanish]] ({{{links}}} not set) or Spanish ({{{links}}} set) and calls {{lang}}
	3. {{lang}} wraps the text in the <span lang="es">text</span> and adds categorization

]=]

function p.Lang (frame)
	local args = getArgs(frame);
end

return p;

Language templates
Language names (ISO 639)
{{ISO 639 name}}
Interwiki links
{{Wikt-lang}} Module:Wikt-lang Module:Wikt-lang/data {{Interlanguage link}}
Foreign-language text
{{Lang}} {{Langx}} Module:Lang {{Transliteration}} {{Title language}}
Other
{{IPA}}
v t e

Data set

Testcases

Tracking categories

See also