Stream: IG creation
Topic: Language Codes
Grahame Grieve (Sep 02 2019 at 19:51):
GF#17679 calls for an expansion of the language value set. The tools currently don't support expanding this value set, and that's because of size.
Internally, there are 8*10^12 codes in the base language code system (not counting extensions and custom domains, which are allowed), and this restricted language value set has 2.5 million members as defined.
That's why the FHIR spec itself has a common set curated by hand, + a max value set of the whole set, which tx.fhir.org can validate against but not expand
Grahame Grieve (Sep 02 2019 at 19:51):
@Eric Haas is seeking for something better than this but I have no ideas
Lloyd McKenzie (Sep 02 2019 at 23:05):
Better how?
Eric Haas (Sep 03 2019 at 00:33):
I think for US Core, it would be just like in the base spec with a curated list of common languages that is displayed and a max valueset as is currently defined here: https://build.fhir.org/ig/HL7/US-Core-R4/ValueSet-simple-language.html
but I don't want to do anything until can discuss with @Brett Marquard and @Robert McClure
Brett Marquard (Sep 03 2019 at 00:34):
I am ok with curated short list and clear note that's all it is for now
Grahame Grieve (Sep 03 2019 at 02:09):
ok, well, that is not a tooling issue. You just leave the definitions in place
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