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Language localization and script code

Virginie Bouilhac
Updated

Definition

You can specify the country of the language to allow customers to filter the content based on their local language preference. For instance, to differentiate Brazilian Portuguese from Portugal Portuguese.

Additionally, the script code indicates what alphabet/script a book is written in. For Portuguese for instance, LATN (Latin) is what we would expect. For Chinese, we would expect HANS or HANT, respectively “Simplified Chinese Characters” or “Traditional Chinese characters”.

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Correct Usage (example)

Info Excel ONIX 2.1 and 3.0
Reference Name Language: pt-BR
chi-Hans-CN (for the script code option, within the language cell)

For the language localization:

<Language>
<LanguageRole>01</LanguageRole>
<LanguageCode>por</LanguageCode>
<CountryCode>BR</CountryCode>
</Language>

For the Script code:

<Language>
<LanguageRole>01</LanguageRole>
<LanguageCode>chi</LanguageCode>
<ScriptCode>Hans</ScriptCode>
</Language>
Short Tag N/A

For the language localization:

<language>
<b253>01</b253>
<b252>eng</b252>
<x449>BR</x449>
</language>

For the Script code:

<Language>
<b253>01</b253>
<b252>chi</b252>
<x420>Hans</x420>
</Language>

 

Incorrect (example)

Excel:
CHINESE
Simplified Chinese
chi, Hans, CN
CN-chi-Hans

To summarize, we expect you to send:

  • 3 letters language code: ENG, FRA, POR, etc.
  • 2 letters local code: BR, PT, CA, GB, etc.
  • If needed, 4 letters script code: LATN, HANS, HANT, etc.

 

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