Re: [bug-gettext] country code list in gettext stale

[Daiki Ueno]

Hi Karl,

address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:

> The gettext manual includes a country code list (node Country Codes,
> file doc/iso-3166.texi).  It's not up to date (in 0.18.3.2), for
> example, it does not include SS for South Sudan.  I'm not sure if it's
> really a good idea for gettext to redundantly include these tables
> (ditto ISO 639), but either they should be removed or updated.
>
> For the current list, the best place I know to look is
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2
> since ISO has unfortunately put their list behind a web registration
> (and I don't get the impression they provide the simple text list any
> more at all).

Thanks for the information.  I've updated it from the page (I'll do the
same for language codes soon).

For further automatic update, I wonder if we could use iso-codes
package, which Debian folks maintain:
http://pkg-isocodes.alioth.debian.org
For country codes, currently it is identical to the above.

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno