Language strings need a better solution

[derpeter]

Currently we maintain language strings in the voctoweb and the youtube client.
Also each new language requires changes in the code.
We need a central and more generic approach on this

[a-tze]

Put the whole table from wikipedia into a dict in a separate module? or maybe there is a python lib for that?

[MaZderMind]

I have very successfully used https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycountry - very nice interface

[derpeter]

as we use more strings then pycountry provides we either need to cut back on the strings or still keep our own list

[a-tze]

Do you have an example? Have a look in 'iso639-3.json' in the source of that module - I cannot find a language that we use which is not in that file.