Provided by: isoquery_3.3.4-1_amd64 
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