WikiMedia has a jquery plugin called jquery.uls (Universal Language Selector) for choosing a language in all kinds of fancy ways.
All MediaWiki sites seem to have it available to the JavaScript running on them via $.uls
. There is documentation for the ULS extension but it seems to only concern itself with the server side and how an end user would interact with it.
I want to know if I can use it to obtain a mapping from the English name of a language (such as "Vietnamese") to the ISO 639 language code for that language (such as "vi").
I can't seem to find this in the docs or find a method that does this among the exposed interfaces. Is it there and I just can't see it?