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locale2
💪 Try as hard as possible to detect the client's language tag ('locale') in node or the browser. Browserify and Webpack friendly!
locale2 
Try as hard as possible to detect the client's language tag ("locale") in node or the browser. Browserify and Webpack friendly!
About Language Tags, Locale, RFC-5646 and BCP-47
In 2009, IETF published RFC-5646, "Tags for Identifying Languages," in which "...describes the structure, content, construction, and semantics of language tags for use in cases where it is desirable to indicate the language used in an information object."
A language tag is composed from a sequence of one or more "subtags", each of which refines or narrows the range of language identified by the overall tag. Subtags, in turn, are a sequence of alphanumeric characters (letters and digits), distinguished and separated from other subtags in a tag by a hyphen ("-", [Unicode] U+002D).
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Unit tested and browser tested with BrowserStack
Tested successfully on:
✓ IE 8 ✓ IE 9 ✓ IE 10 ✓ IE 11 ✓ IE 12 (Edge)
✓ Safari 5.1+
✓ Opera (Presto, Webkit, Blink)
✓ Firefox
✓ Chrome
Node support
$ babel-node
> import locale2 from 'locale2'
> locale2
en-US
>
...and pairs well with iso3166-1!
var iso3166 = require('iso3166-1')
var locale2 = require('locale2')
> iso3166.from(locale2).to3()
USA
>
Install
npm install --no-optional
npm test
Development
Browser testing (currently private)
npm run test:bs
npm run test:bs:local
Try it now
License
FAQs
💪 Try as hard as possible to detect the client's language tag ('locale') in node or the browser. Browserify and Webpack friendly!
The npm package locale2 receives a total of 30,612 weekly downloads. As such, locale2 popularity was classified as popular.
We found that locale2 demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 09 Aug 2018
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