What does the locale ”dk_DZ” mean?

[Sandman]

On my public website I log the visitors languages. I had a look at the stats today and found that I had a user with a mobile phone, where it reported the language to be "da_DZ".

da means Denmark
DZ means Algeria

The format is language_TERRITORY. Meaning we can have en_US for English in the USA. And en_AU for English in Australia. Not very difficult to grasp, really.

But then we're back to da_DZ. By the above logic this would mean Danish in Algeria. Which seems like such a strange combination that I'm finding it difficult to accept it. I simply doubt there's a Danish-speaking community in Algeria.

Does someone know with (close to) certainty what this is about?

 

[William Lancee]

The ISO 639-1 alpha-2 for Danish is da. dk is unassigned, so I "don't know" or something close to that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes

Algeria has three assigned codes (so take your pick):
ar-DZ Arabic
fr_DZ French
kab-DZ Kabyle 'Unfamiliar to me, and not two letters

Edit, as an Aside from wiki:
Kabyle is from the Berber language group and has a wide variety of dialects.
"In 2004, Canadian linguist Jacques Leclerc estimated that there were 3.1 million Kabyle speakers in Algeria (9.4% of the total Algerian population)[1] and 500,000 in France."

 

[Sandman]

Oh, I made a bad typo. I meant to write da, not dk - sorry. I corrected my initial post.

The only explanation I can come up with was that somebody was messing with me and manually edited their locale to be weird. Doesn't sound likely at all, but at the moment I can't come up with a better explanation...

 

[William Lancee]

Was the user name "Katrine" by any chance?

Monday, 28 August 2023

ALGIERS- Minister of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad, Ahmed Attaf, received on Monday at the Ministry's headquarters Katrine From Hoyer, who handed him the engraved copies of the credentials appointing her as Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Kingdom of Denmark to the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, according to a statement issued by the Ministry.

 

[rabbitBUSH]

da means Denmark
DZ means Algeria

Have a look at the line : Java locale here ->
da-DK