Accept Language list

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I would like to react to the Accept_Language that a browser sends to a website.

Does anybody know where I can get a reliable list of all available Accept_Languages that the browser might send to a website?

Thank you very much!

I'd look at the W3, http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-lang-priorities.en.php and I'm sure the UN might have something to say about that. Or some of the market analysis firms that sniff data. I'd guess there's not the full 200+ you'd see in Brussels at a meeting of the convention of the conference of the panels. — Jared Farrish, Dec 16 '12 at 08:02
The correct answer is that a browser *might* send anything, but that's probably not the answer you want to hear. — JJJ, Dec 16 '12 at 08:03

score 19 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 16 '12 at 08:10

IANA Language Subtag Registry page

This is the official location where you will find all subtags available for use in language tags.

W3 said it's the authoritative list. Plus, at the link below, there is a lot more information to be had, including descriptions and other ways of understanding the ways people label themselves.

http://www.w3.org/International/techniques/server-setup#multiviews

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 30 '14 at 14:57

The IANA Language Subtag Registry page is surely the correct answer, but the list is a bit hard to parse.

I found this github repository that has a few scripts to parse it, and a set of ready-to-use JSON objects you can use in your projects:

https://github.com/mattcg/language-subtag-registry

It looks like the author is updating the repo every time the IANA list gets changed.

Accept Language list

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