isoquery(1)
NAME
isoquery - Search and display various ISO codes (country, language,
...)
SYNOPSIS
isoquery [options] [file] [ISO codes]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the isoquery command. It can be
used to generate a tabular output of the ISO standard codes provided by
the package iso-codes. It parses the XML files and shows all included
ISO codes or just matching entries, if specified on the command line.
Moreover, it's possible to get all available translations for the ISO
standard.
OPTIONS
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
options starting with two dashes (`-'). isoquery supports the following options:
- -i, --iso=NUMBER
- The ISO standard to use. Possible values: 639, 3166, 4217, 15924 (default: 3166)
- -n, --name
- Name for the supplied codes (default)
- -o, --official_name
- Official name for the supplied codes. This may be the same as --name.
- -c, --common_name
- Common name for the supplied codes. This may be the same as --name.
- -l, --locale=LOCALE
- Use this locale for output.
- -x, --xmlfile=FILE
- Use another XML file with ISO data. (default: /usr/share/xml/iso-codes/iso_3166.xml)
- -0, --null
- Separate entries with a NULL character instead of newline.
- -h, --help
- Show summary of options.
- -v, --version
- Show program version and copyright.
EXAMPLES
- If called without any command line options, isoquery will put out a table of all ISO 3166 codes. The first three columns contain the alpha-2
code, the alpha-3 code, and the numerical code assigned to the country
listed in the fourth column.
- $ isoquery
AF AFG 004 Afghanistan
[...]
ZW ZWE 716 Zimbabwe - If you need only some countries, you can specify any of the codes in the first three columns to cut down the output.
$ isoquery so nor 484
SO SOM 706 Somalia
NO NOR 578 Norway
MX MEX 484 Mexico- Should you need the translations of the countries' names, just specify in which locale you'd like to see the output. Please note that the original English name will be shown if there is no translation available for the specified locale.
$ isoquery --locale=nl fr de es
FR FRA 250 Frankrijk
DE DEU 276 Duitsland
ES ESP 724 Spanje- All of the above works for different ISO standards as well, so you can switch to language names by using the --iso command line option. For ISO 639, the first three columns are the ISO 639 2B code, the ISO 639 2T code and the ISO 639-1 code. The third column may be empty.
$ isoquery --iso=639
aar aar aa Afar
abk abk ab Abkhazian
ace ace Achinese
[...]
zun zun Zuni
zxx zxx No linguistic content
zza zza Zaza; Dimili; Dimli; Kirdki- You can trim down the results by specifying only some codes. Moreover, the option to get translated names is also available.
$ isoquery --iso=639 --locale=pt vi bo kl
vie vie vi Vietnamita
tib bod bo tibetano
kal kal kl Kalaallisut; Greenlandic- You can get selected translations of currency names from the ISO 4217 standard by using the following command. The first two columns are the alpha-3 code and the numerical code assigned to the currency.
$ isoquery --iso=4217 --locale=da cad 392
CAD 124 Canadisk dollar
JPY 392 Japansk yen- If you need to get script names, you can use the ISO 15924 table. The first two columns are the alpha-4 code and the numerical code assigned to the script.
$ isoquery --iso=15924 jpan latn 280
Jpan 413 Japanese (alias for Han + Hiragana + Katakana)
Latn 215 Latin
Visp 280 Visible Speech
FILES
By default, the XML files provided by the iso-codes package will be
used.
/usr/share/xml/iso-codes/iso_639.xml
/usr/share/xml/iso-codes/iso_3166.xml
/usr/share/xml/iso-codes/iso_4217.xml
/usr/share/xml/iso-codes/iso_15924.xml
LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Tobias Toedter <toddy@debian.org>
Isoquery is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
Isoquery is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
AUTHOR
- Tobias Toedter <toddy@debian.org>