[tz] [PATCH] Minor changes to iso3166.tab
Jiri Bohac
jbohac at suse.cz
Wed Nov 16 16:14:01 UTC 2016
As noted in the file, the table intentionally differs from the
ISO 3166 English names, mostly using even shorter names than
the official short name. In a few cases, it seems to be out of
sync with ISO for no good reason:
Official changes in ISO, where
new is same length or shorter than original:
Cape Verde -> Cabo Verde
Czech Republic -> Czechia
UTF-8 now used elsewhere, so why not for Curaçao:
Curacao -> Curaçao
No good reason to differ from the standard?:
Macau -> Macao
Personally, I would also change "Britain" to "United Kingdom",
I think it's where people would look first. But it would go
from shorter to longer, so I did not include it in the patch.
It's still much shorter than many other names. Would "United
Kingdom" make sense here?
---
iso3166.tab | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/iso3166.tab b/iso3166.tab
index 7a8df2c..0e07afd 100644
--- a/iso3166.tab
+++ b/iso3166.tab
@@ -74,11 +74,11 @@ CN China
CO Colombia
CR Costa Rica
CU Cuba
-CV Cape Verde
-CW Curacao
+CV Cabo Verde
+CW Curaçao
CX Christmas Island
CY Cyprus
-CZ Czech Republic
+CZ Czechia
DE Germany
DJ Djibouti
DK Denmark
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ MK Macedonia
ML Mali
MM Myanmar (Burma)
MN Mongolia
-MO Macau
+MO Macao
MP Northern Mariana Islands
MQ Martinique
MR Mauritania
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Jiri Bohac <jbohac at suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, SUSE CZ
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