Language in the two-letter language list for XML

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1. What is the issue? Please be detailed.
When I export my XLSForm to XML to upload to my Google drive, I get an error about languages: "The following language declarations do not contain valid machine-readable codes". I am using 4 languages, two of which are not on the list that provides the two-letter language code. These two are Acholi and Lusoga, dialiects in Uganda. I had no problem with these when using Kobotoolbox with the XLSForm, but now, the answer choices are not being recognized. Can we create new two-letter language codes?

2. What steps can we take to reproduce this issue?
Essentially having any language in your form that is not on this subtag registry list: https://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-registry

3. What have you tried to fix the issue?
I just realized the issue was the codes being unrecognized.

4. Upload any test forms or screenshots below.
Ok.

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If your language is not on the list, you can use any code. As long as it's consistent throughout the form ODK will work as you expect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soga_language suggests xog for Lusoga
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acholi_dialect suggests ach for Acholi

As to the answer choices not being recognized, what do you mean by that? Is Collect not showing the answer choices?

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Hi, thanks so much for this response. Originally it was just showing dashes for all answer choices in Lusoga and Acholi. Oddly enough, the questions were working though. I just removed the code I had made up on both the survey and choices sheets, and like you said, it now works. I will try those suggested codes again and see if this holds.

All the best,
Andee

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It will show those dashes if you are not being consistent with the label.

It should be label::Lusoga (xog) and label::Acholi (ach) for the labels in both the survey and the choices sheets.