ISO 639-2/3

[isaacrdc]

Does OpenTTD support langauges other than ISO 639-1?

[audigex]

I can't say for certain (so someone may come along and correct me), but as I understand it, OpenTTD does not use ISO 639 for language codes, rather using the language name as the identifier

The language strings are defined in a text file called, for example

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english.lng

and the language is selected in the Openttd.cfg file,

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language = english.lng

OpenTTD can therefore be translated into any language that can be written using unicode characters. Obviously not every language has been translated, and you'll struggle to find the more obscure ones... but they would all be supported if someone translated the required strings into that language.

TL;DR: As far as I'm aware ISO 639 isn't used to identify languages in OpenTTD, and OpenTTD supports any language that can be written using unicode characters.

[isaacrdc]

TL;DR: As far as I'm aware ISO 639 isn't used to identify languages in OpenTTD, and OpenTTD supports any language that can be written using unicode characters.

Okay that sheds some light on my question.

Now to completely make things clear,
Do you accept three letter codes? I notice OpenTTD used two letter codes followed by country code. A language I 'would like' to translate is using a three letter code and has no two letter available, is that possible?

Feel free to correct me

[embeddedt]

OpenTTD doesn't require the language to be written using a 2-3 letter language code; as audigex mentioned above, it can have basically any name.

[isaacrdc]

OpenTTD doesn't require the language to be written using a 2-3 letter language code; as audigex mentioned above, it can have basically any name.

Thanks, this completely woke me up.

[frosch]

OpenTTD only supports 2-letter codes from ISO-639-1. This is also required by all OpenTTD-related tools.

If audigex and embeddedt provide patches for OpenTTD, Eints, BaNaNaS, ... maybe this can be extended to ISO-639-2/T. Beyond that they probably also have to provide patches for Windows and OSX, not sure whether they would accept

[isaacrdc]

Found this related issue, it can be used as reference in case someone is interested creating PR(s)