Check language tag

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Hi! Tell me please how I can current check language tag?
I tried something like this
func main() {

 t, err := language.Parse("en")
 if err != nil {
  fmt.Println(err.Error())
 }

 fmt.Println(t)


 k, err := language.ParseBase("en")
 if err != nil {
  fmt.Println(err.Error())
 }

 fmt.Println(k)

 r, err := language.ParseRegion("en")
 if err != nil {
  fmt.Println(err.Error())
 }

 fmt.Println(r)
}

But the result is

en
en
language: subtag "EN" is well-formed but unknown
ZZ

and that little confused to me
Which pkg can check tags correctly?
Thanks!

2

Where is language coming from? I can not find such a package in the stdlib.

Aside of that, I’m not aware of any language that would have a sub-language “en”, perhaps you should try something like “us” or “uk” there?

3

Sorry, pkg - “golang.org/x/text/language”
En - I mean like ENG

4

I can not find en or eng in the list of valid values per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1

5

Oh I see, only tags from ISO work’s fine?
But I need check tags with alpha3 value(
https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/English_list.php

6

Documentation says this:

ParseRegion parses a 2- or 3-letter ISO 3166-1 or a UN M.49 code. It returns a ValueError if s is a well-formed but unknown region identifier or another error if another error occurred.

So if you have to deal with ISO 639-2, then you need to find a library that can deal with that. Your current library explicitely states it does not.

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