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Support BCP-47 language fallback in translateQuestionnaire #61

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@dmitryashutov

Summary

translateQuestionnaire currently matches translation extensions with an exact language code comparison. FHIR Questionnaire.language and the translation extension lang both use BCP-47 codes from the Common Languages value set (http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/languages), so values like de-AT, en-GB, fr-CA are valid.

When a region-specific language is requested (e.g. de-AT) but only a more general or related translation exists (e.g. de or de-DE), translation should still apply via a defined fallback chain instead of failing silently.

Proposed fallback order

Given a requested language (example: de-AT), resolve a translation in this order:

  1. Exact matchde-AT
  2. Primary language tagde (strip region/script subtags)
  3. Any other regional variant of the primary languagede-* (e.g. de-DE, de-CH)
  4. Englishen
  5. Any English regional varianten-* (e.g. en-GB, en-US)

If none of the above are present, leave the original text unchanged (current no-match behavior).

Examples

Requested Available translations Expected pick
de-AT de-AT, de, en de-AT
de-AT de, en de
de-AT de-DE, en de-DE
de-AT en-GB en-GB
de-AT fr (no change)
en-GB en, de en
en en-US, de en-US

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