Language

base: StringFIX 5.0 SP2

Language is a FIX datatype defined in FIX 5.0 SP2, carried on the wire as String. 1 field uses it.

Wire format

Base type
String
Fields
1

Carried on the wire as String.

What the specification says

Identifier for a national language - uses ISO 639-1 standard

Descriptions are quoted from the FIX Orchestra sources under the Apache 2.0 licence.

How @boarteam/fix handles it

@boarteam/fix keeps the value as a string; format rules are checked by validate(), which reports validate/invalid-value rather than throwing.

Fields with this datatype

TagFieldDialectsMessages
1474LanguageCodeFIX 5.0 SP21

Decode this in your own code

The same engine that produced the decoded example above is an Apache-2.0 npm package with zero runtime dependencies. It runs in Node and in the browser, and parse() returns problems as data instead of throwing.

npm i @boarteam/fix @boarteam/fix-dict-fix44