Locale Code

technology.code.locale_code

Language-region code in IETF BCP 47 format (e.g., en-US, fr-FR, zh-Hans). Allows for script subtags (e.g., zh-Hant) and extensions.

Domain

technology

Try it

CLI

$ finetype infer -i "en"
→ technology.code.locale_code

DuckDB

Detect

SELECT finetype('en');
-- → 'technology.code.locale_code'

Cast expression

CAST({col} AS VARCHAR)

Safe cast pipeline

-- Normalise and cast in one step
SELECT TRY_CAST(finetype_cast(my_column) AS VARCHAR) AS clean_value
FROM my_table
WHERE finetype(my_column) = 'technology.code.locale_code';

Struct Expansion

Expression

country: REGEXP_EXTRACT(LOWER({col}), '-([a-z]{2})(?:$|-)')
language: REGEXP_EXTRACT(LOWER({col}), '^([a-z]{2,3})')

JSON Schema

finetype schema technology.code.locale_code

{
  "$id": "https://meridian.online/schemas/technology.code.locale_code",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "Language-region code in IETF BCP 47 format (e.g., en-US, fr-FR, zh-Hans). Allows for script subtags (e.g., zh-Hant) and extensions.",
  "examples": [
    "en",
    "en-US",
    "fr-FR",
    "zh-Hans-CN",
    "de-AT"
  ],
  "pattern": "^[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(?:[-_][a-zA-Z]{2,4})*$",
  "title": "Locale Code",
  "type": "string",
  "x-finetype-broad-type": "VARCHAR",
  "x-finetype-transform": "CAST({col} AS VARCHAR)"
}

Examples

enen-USfr-FRzh-Hans-CNde-AT