Bug #71124 for Locale-Codes: is there a way to get names from deprecated country codes?

Wed Sep 21 14:07:46 2011 rjbs [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

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is there a way to get names from deprecated country codes?

The ISO code "an" was only retired last year, and plenty of data still refers to it. code2country('an') finds nothing. Is there a way to use Locale::Codes to get this datum? -- rjbs

Wed Sep 21 14:40:12 2011 sbeck [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Unfortunately, when I generate the codes for Locale-Codes, I get them from the standards, and those standards contain current information, but not historical information. So the immediate answer is: no, this is not possible. However, I can see some good arguments for including this functionality. I'll have to give it some thought... if it can be implemented in a way that doesn't involve a complete rewrite, I'll add it. Just a note though... I doubt I'll have time to implement it in the next few months, so I wouldn't expect to see it for 5-6 months.

Wed Sep 21 14:40:13 2011 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Wed Sep 21 14:40:14 2011 sbeck [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'

Tue Sep 27 16:20:41 2011 sbeck [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

After some thought, I realized that this would actually be a fairly easy thing to add... and a useful addition, so I've added it. It will be in the next release. Support for deprecated codes is somewhat limited... but the most important functions (code2XXX, XXX2code, all_XXX_codes, and all_XXX_names support deprecated codes now). Also it should be noted that by deprecated codes, I only mean codes that have, at one time or another, been in Locale::Codes. Any code that came and went but never made it into Locale::Codes is not included.

Tue Sep 27 16:20:42 2011 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'resolved' to 'open'

Tue Sep 27 16:21:08 2011 sbeck [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'

Mon Jan 20 14:57:14 2014 rjbs [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

I can't find it documented how to get at these. The tests are somewhat difficult to read, as they seem written in the little language of testfunc.pl code2code, also, doesn't *seem* to allow me to pass in retired, but I'm not sure. -- rjbs

Mon Jan 20 14:57:14 2014 rjbs [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'resolved' to 'open'

Tue Jan 21 09:51:26 2014 sbeck [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

If you read the Locale::Codes::API manual, deprecated codes are documented. You can do something like: all_country_codes('alpha-2','retired') to get all country codes (active AND retired). Check out the other functions which take the optional 'retired' argument for more functionality.

Tue Jan 21 09:51:27 2014 sbeck [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'

Tue Jan 21 12:53:33 2014 rjbs [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On 2014-01-21 09:51:26, SBECK wrote: Show quoted text

> If you read the Locale::Codes::API manual, deprecated codes are > documented.

Thanks, I had not seen Locale::Codes::API! Silly me. -- rjbs