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> German would be like 3 countries, unless Austria and Schweiz have their own language code. Officially, we have de-DE for German German, de-AT for Austrian Ge
by skissane 3y ago
> German would be like 3 countries, unless Austria and Schweiz have their own language code.
Officially, we have de-DE for German German, de-AT for Austrian German, de-CH for Swiss German, de-LI for Liechtenstein German – Chrome knows all of those. Plain "de" means German of unknown variant/dialect, but statistically is more likely Germany than any other country.
German is also a secondary official language in Belgium (de-BE), Luxembourg (de-LU), Namibia (de-NA), and also in one region of Italy (de-IT), but software awareness of those German variants is less common (Chrome doesn't know about them, but some other software packages do, e.g. ICU and Microsoft .NET).