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NAME

       isoquery - search and display various ISO codes (country, language, …)

SYNOPSIS

       isoquery [OPTION ] [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
       JSON 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=STANDARD
           The ISO standard to use. Possible values: 639-2, 639-3, 639-5, 3166-1, 3166-2, 3166-3,
           4217, 15924 (default: 3166-1)

       -p, --pathname=PATHNAME
           Use PATHNAME as prefix for the data files (default: /usr/share/iso-codes/json)

       -l, --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 3166-1)

       -c, --common_name
           Common name for the supplied codes. This may be the same as --name (only applies to
           ISO 639-2, 639-3, and 3166-1)

       -0, --null
           Separate entries with a NULL character instead of newline

       -f, --flag
           Show country flags with regional indicator symbol letters (only applies to ISO 3166-1)

       -h, --help
           Show summary of options

       -v, --version
           Show program version and copyright

EXAMPLES

       If called without any command line options, isoquery will print a table of all ISO 3166-1
       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
           AW      ABW     533     Aruba
           […]
           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

       If your terminal supports the unicode regional indicator symbol letters, you can use the
       --flag command line option. Those letters can be displayed as a country flag.

           $ isoquery --flag --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 ISO
       3166-2 code, subset type (e.g. State, Province, etc.), parent, and name. The third column
       (parent) may be empty.

           $ isoquery --iso=3166-2
           AD-02   Parish          Canillo
           […]
           ZW-MW   Province        Mashonaland West

       Codes which have been deleted from ISO 3166-1 are available in ISO 3166-3. The columns are
       alpha-3 code, alpha-4 code, numeric code, comment, withdrawal date, and name. The columns
       for numeric code, comment, and withdrawal date may be empty.

           $ isoquery --iso=3166-3
           AFI     AIDJ    262             1977    French Afars and Issas
           ANT     ANHH    532             1993-07-12      Netherlands Antilles
           […]
           YUG     YUCS    891             1993-07-28      Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of
           ZAR     ZRCD    180             1997-07-14      Zaire, Republic of

       For ISO 639-2, the first three columns are the alpha-3 code, the bibliographic code, and
       the alpha-2 code. The second and third columns may be empty.

           $ isoquery --iso=639-2
           aar             aa      Afar
           abk             ab      Abkhazian
           ace                     Achinese
           […]
           zun                     Zuni
           zxx                     No linguistic content; Not applicable
           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=639-2 --locale=pt vi bo kl
           vie             vi      Vietnamita
           bod     tib     bo      tibetano
           kal             kl      Kalaallisut; Greenlandic

       If you want to use ISO 639-3, the displayed columns are alpha-3, scope, type, alpha-2,
       bibliographic, and the language name. Both alpha-2 and bibliographic may be empty.

           $ isoquery -i 639-3 aal new spa guc
           aal     I       L                       Afade
           new     I       L                       Newari
           spa     I       L       es              Spanish
           guc     I       L                       Wayuu

       ISO 639-5 is also available. The displayed columns are alpha-3 and name.

           $ isoquery -i 639-5 aus tut
           aus     Australian languages
           tut     Altaic languages

       You can get selected translations of currency names from the ISO 4217 standard by using
       the following command. The first of the columns is the alpha-3 code, and the second one is
       the numerical code assigned to the currency. The name of the currency is shown in the
       third column.

           $ 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 of the columns
       is the alpha-4 code, and the second one is the numerical code assigned to the script. The
       name of the script is shown in the third column.

           $ 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 JSON files provided by the iso-codes package will be used.

       •   /usr/share/iso-codes/json/iso_639-2.json/usr/share/iso-codes/json/iso_639-3.json/usr/share/iso-codes/json/iso_639-5.json/usr/share/iso-codes/json/iso_3166-1.json/usr/share/iso-codes/json/iso_3166-2.json/usr/share/iso-codes/json/iso_3166-3.json/usr/share/iso-codes/json/iso_4217.json/usr/share/iso-codes/json/iso_15924.json

AUTHOR

       Dr. Tobias Quathamer toddy@debian.org