Bug #12373 for Locale-Codes: Locale::Language: support alias for countries

Thu Apr 21 13:06:50 2005 Guest - Ticket created

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Locale::Language: support alias for countries

Hiya, At the moment, Locale::Country supports setting aliases for country _codes_, but does not allow for setting aliases of _countries_. I'd like to alias "UK" and "U.K."--> "Great Britain" / "United Kingdom", so that we can preserve the ISO 3166-1 codes (ie - country2code( 'United Kingdom' ) should still return 'gb'), and so I will get back 'gb' when I call country2code( 'UK' ). For example, in the perl debugger: DB<1> use Locale::Country qw( country2code code2country ) DB<2> x country2code( 'UK' ) 0 undef DB<3> p country2code( 'U.K.' ) 0 undef DB<4> p country2code( 'United Kingdom' ) 0 'gb' DB<5> Locale::Country::alias_code('uk' => 'gb'); DB<6> p country2code( 'United Kingdom' ) 0 'uk' # This should still return 'gb'! Ideally, I'd like to be able to say: Locale::Country::alias_country('UK' => 'United Kingdom'); -Steve

Tue Nov 10 09:04:19 2009 shay [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Thu Apr 21 13:06:50 2005, guest wrote: Show quoted text

> Hiya, > > At the moment, Locale::Country supports setting aliases for country > _codes_, but does not allow for setting aliases of _countries_. > > I'd like to alias "UK" and "U.K."--> "Great Britain" / "United > Kingdom", so that we can preserve the ISO 3166-1 codes (ie - > country2code( 'United Kingdom' ) should still return 'gb'), and so > I will get back 'gb' when I call country2code( 'UK' ). > > For example, in the perl debugger: > > DB<1> use Locale::Country qw( country2code code2country ) > DB<2> x country2code( 'UK' ) > 0 undef > DB<3> p country2code( 'U.K.' ) > 0 undef > DB<4> p country2code( 'United Kingdom' ) > 0 'gb' > > DB<5> Locale::Country::alias_code('uk' => 'gb'); > DB<6> p country2code( 'United Kingdom' ) > 0 'uk' > # This should still return 'gb'! > > Ideally, I'd like to be able to say: > > Locale::Country::alias_country('UK' => 'United Kingdom'); > > -Steve

Me too. In fact, it already supports United States and USA without the need for any user-specified alias, so why not United Kingdom and UK? Indeed, it also supports United States of America, so it should also support United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland too. The attached patch does this. I'd still like to see an alias mechanism as well as this, though.

diff -ruN Locale-Codes-2.07.orig/lib/Locale/Country.pm Locale-Codes-2.07/lib/Locale/Country.pm --- Locale-Codes-2.07.orig/lib/Locale/Country.pm 2004-06-10 23:19:34.000000000 +0100 +++ Locale-Codes-2.07/lib/Locale/Country.pm 2009-11-10 13:50:02.986138600 +0000 @@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ fr:fra:250:France fx:fxx:249:France, Metropolitan ga:gab:266:Gabon -gb:gbr:826:United Kingdom:Great Britain +gb:gbr:826:United Kingdom:UK:United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland:Great Britain gd:grd:308:Grenada ge:geo:268:Georgia gf:guf:254:French Guiana

Tue Nov 10 09:04:20 2009 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Wed Feb 10 11:12:41 2010 sbeck [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

I just took over maintenance of Locale-Codes, and this seems like a good suggestion. I'll see about adding it to 3.01. I just wanted to reply to let you know that Locale-Codes is under active maintenance again so hopefully this will be available shortly.

Wed Feb 17 12:50:23 2010 sbeck [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Version 3.10 will have a full set of routines for modifying internal data for all types of code sets.

Wed Feb 17 12:50:43 2010 sbeck [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'

Wed Feb 17 12:52:01 2010 sbeck [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

In addition, I've added the "uk" alias suggested by Steve Hay (the other suggested alias is already present due to it's inclusion in the standards).

Wed Feb 17 12:52:03 2010 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'resolved' to 'open'

Wed Feb 17 12:52:03 2010 sbeck [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'