Change default language name

[Noel Boss]

Has anyone tried renaming the default language name from "default" to something else like "en" ? Are there unintended side effects or restrictions or anything else to consider?

There is $languages->findNonDefault(); and $languages->getDefault(); that suggest that renaming should be possible without breaking the core, but I suspect, some modules ore maybe even the core are using $languages->find('name=default') or the inverse and thus break things all over the place…

Has anyone pulled this off?

[dragan]

Apparently you can't.

May I ask why you want to do this? Is changing the title not enough?

[Noel Boss]

Technically I can, directly in the DB… And it also apparently works… But I don't know in how many ways it could break.

Want to rename it, because I want it to be semantically correct and because I don't want to add a new field. I need it to display labels like "en" "de" and I could just use the name to do so instead of adding another field or hardcoding it…

[AndZyk]

I use the default name and make a substr with only the first two characters.

Works for "de" and "en", but probably not for every language. ?

[kixe]

As far I can see it is possible to change it in the DB. After a quick research I couldn't find any place where this would cause problems (maybe in 3d party modules?). But still I wouldn't do that.

If you just want the value for the label, why not taking it from the homepage name, representing the language in the url.

foreach ($languages as $l) echo $pages->get(1)->localName($l);