mlanguage_code(3m17n)

💖 mlanguage_code 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

mlanguage_code — that's her. that's the girl. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

MSymbol mlanguage_code (MSymbol language, int len)

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so. mlanguage_code() gets you a language code. 🎀 it returns a symbol whose name is the ISO639 language code of language.

so what even is language? it's a symbol whose name is one of these three things:

• an ISO639-2 3-letter language code
• an ISO639-1 2-letter language code
• or just an English word 👑

and len? len is the vibe check that decides what kind of code you get back:

• if len is 3, you get an ISO639-2 3-letter language code back.
• if len is 2, you get an ISO639-1 2-letter language code back when it's defined — and if it's not defined? you get Mnil. not me getting rejected by the ISO standard 😭
• if len is 0, you get a 2-letter code when it's defined; otherwise you get a 3-letter code. so she tries her best, and if the 2-letter doesn't exist she serves you the 3-letter instead. adaptable icon. ✨

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✨ RETURN VALUE ✨

if the info is available, this function returns a non-Mnil symbol. otherwise it returns Mnil. simple as that, no cap. 💜

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• mlanguage_name_list()
• mlanguage_text()

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✨ COPYRIGHT ✨

Copyright (C) 2001 Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA)

Copyright (C) 2001-2011 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html>.

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