"l1" identified as language

[voitsehovska]

I have not found any information about language identificator "l1" in the basic documentation of transliterate package. The problem is that German text was recognized as l1. However, it should be "de" according to my code and output (as you can see in further examples on the attached screen, in the fourth column "DIE EINHEIT" was identified correctly as "de", but "DEUTSCHE WAHRHEIT..." was identified as l1).

I also found this submodule http://pythonhosted.org/transliterate/transliterate.contrib.languages.l1.html
If it is Latin 1, then why does it emerge like that?

[barseghyanartur]

@voitsehovska:

Well, German uses Latin script (with some additions).

I guess you have created a new language pack for transliterating from/to German. In that case, you should explicitly provider the language pack code to/from which you plan to transliterate.

I suggest you to use another library for language detection Google and transliterate for transliteration.

[davidam]

I am seeing the same thing ...

print(get_available_language_codes())
['hy', 'bg', 'sr', 'uk', 'l1', 'ru', 'mk', 'mn', 'ka', 'el']

From my point of view, must appear a subset of http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php. So, l1 is not an iso language code ...