ISOQUERY(1) 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 standard, --iso=standard
The ISO standard to use. Possible values: 639, 639-3, 3166, 3166-2, 4217, 15924 (default: 3166).
-x file, --xmlfile=file
Use another XML file with ISO data (default: /usr/share/xml/iso-codes/iso_3166.xml).
-l locale, --locale=locale
Use this locale for output.
-n, --name
Name for the supplied codes (default).
-o, --official_name
Official name for the supplied codes. This may be the same as --name (only applies to ISO 3166).
-c, --common_name
Common name for the supplied codes. This may be the same as --name (only applies to ISO 3166).
-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 the more extensive standard ISO 3166-2 by using the --iso
command line option. The columns are country code, subset type (e.g. State, Province, etc.), ISO 3166-2 code, parent, and name. The fourth
column (parent) may be empty.
$ isoquery --iso=3166-2
AD Parish AD-07 Andorra la Vella
[...]
ZW Province ZW-MI Midlands
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; Not applicable
zza zza Zaza; Dimili; Dimli; Kirdki; Kirmanjki; Zazaki
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
If you want to use ISO 639-3, the displayed columns are id, scope, type, part 1 code, part 2 code, and the language name. Both part 1 and
part 2 may be empty.
$ isoquery -i 639-3 aal new spa guc
aal I L Afade
new I L new Bhasa, Nepal
spa I L es spa Spanish
guc I L Wayuu
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 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_639_3.xml
/usr/share/xml/iso-codes/iso_3166.xml
/usr/share/xml/iso-codes/iso_3166_2.xml
/usr/share/xml/iso-codes/iso_4217.xml
/usr/share/xml/iso-codes/iso_15924.xml
AUTHOR
Tobias Quathamer <toddy@debian.org>
1.7 2012-01-23 ISOQUERY(1)