A collection of country and language names, translated into hundreds of languages, and stored into YAML files for easy consumption.
locale_data was extracted out from Web Translate It. The data comes from CLDR.
Whenever a new version of CLDR comes out, locale_data’s translations can be updated using the provided rake tasks:
$ rake -T
(in /Users/edouard/Projects/github/locale_data)
rake update_languages # Update language translations
rake update_territories # Update territory translations
rake update_scripts # Update script translations
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