What is "values" folder name for Danish Language?

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I read the localization in Android. Here for we need to create different values's folder for each language.

for e.g.

res/values/strings.xml : Contains English text for all the strings that the application uses, including text for a string named title.
res/values-fr/strings.xml : Contain French text for all the strings, including title.
res/values-ja/strings.xml : Contain Japanese text for all the strings except title.

Now I want to give support for Danish language then what should I name to value's folder ?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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For Danish, you got to use values-da folder.

Edit: It turns out, according to this post that it is values-da.

Plus, according to the Android Locale class documentation:

The language codes are two-letter lowercase ISO language codes (such as "en") as defined by ISO 639-1. 
The country codes are two-letter uppercase ISO country codes (such as "US") as defined by ISO 3166-1. 
The variant codes are unspecified.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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answered May 27 '14 at 09:53

joao2fast4u

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Ok, thank you, but what is the logic for this name ? – user2060383 May 27 '14 at 09:54
It is the country code top-level domain. See this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain – joao2fast4u May 27 '14 at 09:55
If that's so, then it's a bug: DK is the country code for Denmark, DA is the language code for Danish. There is non DK language code. – Jon Hanna May 27 '14 at 09:56
I already edited my post. You can see more details here:http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/localization.html – joao2fast4u May 27 '14 at 09:59
Thanks, I was looking for that list :) – user2060383 May 27 '14 at 09:59
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@joao2fast4u, can you too please voteup my question ? – user2060383 May 27 '14 at 10:12

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered May 27 '14 at 10:06

For Danish generally, you would want to use res/values-da/strings.xml.

To have strings specific to a country as well as a language you would use res/values-da-rDK/strings.xml for Denmark, res/values-da-rGL/strings.xml for Greenland, res/values-da-rDE/strings.xml for Germany (there being a sizable Danish-speaking community in Southern Schleswig along with a few elsewhere in Germany), res/values-da-rFO/strings.xml for the Faroe Islands, and so on. You can even have something like res/values-da-rFR/strings.xml as while there isn't a large Danish-speaking population in France, nothing stops you doing something like that anyway.

You can mix these, e.g. being specific to country only for a handful of values, falling back to res/values-da/strings.xml for everything else.

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered May 27 '14 at 09:55

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Via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes, you would use res/values-da/strings.xml.

answered May 27 '14 at 09:55

David

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered May 27 '14 at 09:58

Android value's folder is following the locale naming specified by ISO-639-1.

Danish language, according to the standard, have the locale da, so your folder will be values-da.

The same rule applies to all languages.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes

What is "values" folder name for Danish Language?

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