Yaltm

Yaltm is a fictional term used here to illustrate how a wiki-style article about a software project might be written. In this context, YALTm stands for Yet Another Language Tag Manager, an open-source library intended to simplify how language tags are applied to digital content. It aims to provide a consistent interface for tagging, normalizing, and querying language metadata, aligning with ISO standards for language codes (ISO 639), scripts (ISO 15924), and territories (ISO 3166).

Design and features

- Tag normalization and canonicalization

- ISO code mapping

- Pluggable backends (JSON, SQL, RDF)

- CLI and API

- Localization-aware comparisons

History and development

Concept proposed by a fictional team in 2020, with an initial release in 2022 and ongoing maintenance by volunteers.

Adoption and reception

Adoption is limited to demonstrations and educational materials. Some projects value the unified tagging approach, but critics note redundancy with existing standards and libraries.

See also

ISO 639, ISO 15924, ISO 3166