ISO 639-3 Updates in Paratext

Question

We just received a new ISO code for a language here in Nepal. (dwz - Dewas Rai)

How does Paratext incorporate new codes, when will that happen?

Thanks

Answer 1

Unfortunately, stuff happens.

The library we use to get the Ethnologue codes stopped being updated on the version we are using for 8.0. Unfortunately, we don’t have a good upgrade path to getting 8.0 using the latest version of that library. We might be able to update with a fair amount of work, but it would be the Paratext product owner’s call on whether we do that.

9.0 is using the latest version of that library (and includes DWZ) and we should have a much better upgrade path going forward, so we will hopefully keep up with the changes to the Ethnologue in Paratext 9.0 (but no promises there, either).

Answer 2

We get our codes from the Ethnologue (which incorporates ISO 639-3 changes) and try to update the codes once a year (following their official releases that happen in February-ish of every year).

Answer 3

The update timeline is the same for registry.paratext.org?

Since that is where we would change the language code for the existing project.

Answer 4

The plan is to have them update more-or-less at the same time. @anon070596 can verify.

Answer 5

The above message said the Ethnologue updates would be integrated after February. I don’t see the DWZ code yet. Has it been done or postponed or ?

Answer 6

We’ve added dwz to the langtags.json although the script was marked as unknown. I’ve just changed it to Deva. However, I’m not sure that Paratext is using langtags.json?