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 Author: Dino View Messages Posted By Dino
 Posted: Jul 15, 2025 10:00
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Dino (499)

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Hi,

Can you please change the code for the Ukrainian language from UK to UA? Most
languages have the TLD code as identifier. The code UK used now for the Ukrainian
language overlaps with the TLD code UK for Great Britain.

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Werner

https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2004&q=Language
 Author: Turez View Messages Posted By Turez
 Posted: Jul 16, 2025 12:06
 Subject: Re: Change language code
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In Catalog Requests, Dino writes:
  Hi,

Can you please change the code for the Ukrainian language from UK to UA? Most
languages have the TLD code as identifier. The code UK used now for the Ukrainian
language overlaps with the TLD code UK for Great Britain.

Regards
Werner

https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2004&q=Language

The language codes on that help page are internal appreviations which are used
on the "Add Item" and "Change Item" forms. They are not shown
anywhere else to the public and are not related to region or language codes used
in item names or item numbers. And they cannot be changed by catalog administrators.
 Author: SylvainLS View Messages Posted By SylvainLS
 Posted: Jul 16, 2025 12:44
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In Catalog, Turez writes:
  In Catalog Requests, Dino writes:
  Hi,

Can you please change the code for the Ukrainian language from UK to UA? Most
languages have the TLD code as identifier.

Wrong.

“AF” is the “TLD” code for Afghanistan, they don’t (officially or generally)
speak Afrikaans there.
“AR” is for Argentina, they don’t (officially or generally) speak Arabic there.
There’s no country “EN.”
They don’t speak Slovenian (sl) in Sierra Leone (SL).
Etc.


  
   The code UK used now for the Ukrainian
language overlaps with the TLD code UK for Great Britain.

Regards
Werner

https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2004&q=Language

The language codes on that help page are internal appreviations which are used
on the "Add Item" and "Change Item" forms. They are not shown
anywhere else to the public and are not related to region or language codes used
in item names or item numbers. And they cannot be changed by catalog administrators.

The list is correct.  It’s not “TLD” country codes (ISO 3166-1 alpha 2) that
are used but ISO 639-1 language codes.
The only problem with the list is that the codes are writen UPPERCASE while they
should be lowercase.
 Author: peregrinator View Messages Posted By peregrinator
 Posted: Jul 16, 2025 12:59
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In Catalog, SylvainLS writes:
  The list is correct.  It’s not “TLD” country codes (ISO 3166-1 alpha 2) that
are used but ISO 639-1 language codes.
The only problem with the list is that the codes are writen UPPERCASE while they
should be lowercase.

The codes are not case-sensitive ... they might look better in lowercase than
in uppercase, but they don't have to be lowercase.

https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/faq.html#21

Anyway, TLD country codes are used for *locales*, so a specific Ukrainian language
code for Ukraine would be "uk-ua"
 Author: SylvainLS View Messages Posted By SylvainLS
 Posted: Jul 16, 2025 13:18
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In Catalog, peregrinator writes:
  In Catalog, SylvainLS writes:
  The list is correct.  It’s not “TLD” country codes (ISO 3166-1 alpha 2) that
are used but ISO 639-1 language codes.
The only problem with the list is that the codes are writen UPPERCASE while they
should be lowercase.

The codes are not case-sensitive ... they might look better in lowercase than
in uppercase, but they don't have to be lowercase.

https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/faq.html#21

Well, I wrote “should be,” not “must be.”
Lowercase is a recommendation and the usage.


  Anyway, TLD country codes are used for *locales*, so a specific Ukrainian language
code for Ukraine would be "uk-ua"

“uk-UA” or “uk_UA” 😜