ChangeLog for Locale-Codes Distribution As of 3.00, the codes are autogenerated from the standards. With each release, codes will be re-generated and tested to see if any code changed. Any time there are any changes to the codes, it will be flagged below with a change: NEW CODE(s). 3.13 3.12 2010-04-06 sbeck * NEW CODE(s) * Renamed test.pl to testfunc.pl to avoid causing an error when built as part of perl. 3.11 2010-03-01 sbeck * NEW CODE(s) * Added the IANA domain names to Country * Fixed a problem that produced warnings with perl 5.11.5. Jerry D. Hedden 3.10 2010-02-18 sbeck * NEW CODE(s) * Moved support files into the Locale::Codes namespace. * The work done in each of the Locale::XXX modules was virtually identical to each other. It has all been moved to a central module and the Locale::XXX moduels are now just wrappers. * The XXX_code2code functions would return undef if the same codeset were passed in for both the 2nd and 3rd arguments. This doesn't make sense and has been changed. * Added all semi-private routines (except for the couple that were already present): rename_XXX add_XXX delete_XXX add_XXX_alias delete_XXX_alias rename_XXX_code add_XXX_code_alias delete_XXX_code_alias * Added "UK" alias. Steve Hay 3.01 2010-02-15 sbeck * Fixed Makefile.PL and Build.PL to install as core modules. 3.00 2010-02-10 sbeck * NEW CODE(s) * Took over maintenance of the code * All codes and country names come from the official standards * code2country now returns the name of the country specified in the standard (if the different standards refer to the country by different variations in the name, the results will differe based on the CODESET) * Added code sets FIPS 10 country codes Alpha-3 and Term language codes Numeric currency codes * The rename_country funcion from 2.07 would guess the CODESET (unlike all other functions which used a default of LOCALE_CODE_ALPHA_2). The guess can cause problems since (with the addition of FIPS) codes may appear in different codesets for different countries. The behavior has been changed to be the same as other functions (default to LOCALE_CODE_ALPHA_2). * Dropped support for _alias_code * Added language_code2code, currency_code2code 2.07 2004-06-10 neilb * made $_ local in the initialisation code for each module change back-propagated from Perl distribution * removed two non ISO-8859-1 characters from language names change back-propagated from Perl distribution * added the following aliases, with a test case for each - Burma added to Myanmar - French Southern and Antarctic Lands to French Southern Territories patch from TJ Mather * "Canadian Dollar" was mis-spelled as "Candian Dollar" - noted by Nick Cabatoff, patch from Michael Hennecke * Changes to Locale::Country reflecting changes in ISO 3166 - added Aland Islands (ax, ala, 248) - YUGOSLAVIA is now SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO YU => CS YUG => SCG 891 => 891 (unchanged) (YUGOSLAVIA retained as an alias) - EAST TIMOR changed to TIMOR-LESTE (old name retained as an alias) - three letter code for Romania changed from ROM to ROU * ZAIRE is now CONGO, THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE ZR => CD ZAR => COD 180 => 180 (unchanged) (ZAIRE retained as alias) 2.06 2002-07-15 neilb * The four modules which have data after __DATA__ weren't closing the DATA filehandle after reading from it, which they should. Bug and patch from Steve Hay. 2.05 2002-07-08 neilb * Added three letter codes for the countries that were missing them. Patch from TJ Mather. * Documentation bug: one of the examples used => where the lvalue was a constant, which isn't allowed, unless you put the () with the constant to force the right interpretation. Pointed out by TJ Mather and MYT. * Updated the URL for the appendix in the CIA world factbook. Patch from TJ Mather. 2.04 2002-05-23 neilb * updated according to changes in ISO 3166-1 described in ISO 3166-1 newsletters V-4 and V-5, dated 2002-05-20: - Kazakstan is now "Kazakhstan" - Macau is now "Macao" The old names are retained as aliases. The alpha-2 and alpha-3 codes for East Timor have changed: tp -> tl tmp -> tls the numeric code stays 626. If you want to support the old codes, you can use the semi-private function alias_code(). 2.03 2002-03-24 neilb * Fixed a typo in the alias for the Vatican, reported (with patch) by Philip Newton. * Added "Moldova" as an alias for "Moldova, Republic of" * Updated Makefile.PL to include AUTHOR and ABSTRACT 2.02 2002-03-09 neilb * added semi-private routine rename_country() to Locale::Country, based on a patch from Iain Chalmers. * added test rename.t for the above function. * renamed _alias_code to be alias_code. Have retained the old name for backwards compatibility. Will remove it when the major version number next changes. 2.01 2002-02-18 neilb * Split the documentation for all modules into separate pod files. * Made sure all =over were =over 4; some were other values. * The code2code() methods had one more shift than was needed. 2.00 2002-02-17 neilb * Created Locale::Script which provides an interface to the ISO codes for identification of scripts (writing scripts, rather than perl style scripts). The codes are defined by ISO 15924, which is currently in final draft. Thanks to Jarkko for pointing out this new standard. All three code sets are supported, and a test-suite added. * Added support for country name variants to Locale::Country, so that country2code('USA') country2code('United States') country2code('United States of America') will all return 'us'. This had been in the LIMITATIONS section since the first version. Patch from TJ Mather with additional variants from me. Added test-cases for these. * Added VERSION to Locale::Constants. Thanks to Jarkko for pointing that it was missing. * Should really have bumped major version with previous release, since there was a change to the API. 1.06 2001-03-04 neilb Added Locale::Constants, which defines three symbols for identifying which codeset is being used: LOCALE_CODE_ALPHA_2 LOCALE_CODE_ALPHA_3 LOCALE_CODE_NUMERIC Updated Locale::Country to support all three code sets defined by ISO 3166. This was requested by Keith Wall. I haven't added multiple codeset support to the other modules yet - I'll wait until someone asks for them. 1.05 Feb 2001 Added Locale::Currency, contribution from Michael Hennecke. Added testsuite for it (t/currency.t) and added testcases to t/all.t for the all_* functions. 1.04 Dec 2000 Fixed very minor typos from 1.03! 1.03 Dec 2000 Updated Locale::Country: - fixed spelling of a few countries - added link to a relevant page from CIA world factbook Updated Locale::Language: - fixed typo in the documentation (ISO 939 should be 639) 1.02 May 2000 Updated Locale::Country and Locale::Language to reflect changes in the relevant ISO standards. These mainly reflect languages which are new to the relevant standard, and changes in the spelling of some country names. Added official URLs for the standards to the SEE ALSO sections of the doc for each module. Thanks to Jarkko Hietaniemi for pointing me at the pages with latest versions of ISO 3166 and 639. 1.00 March 1998 Added Locale::Country::_alias_code() so that 'uk' can be added as the code for "United Kingdom", if you want it. This was prompted by Ed Jordan Added a new testsuite for handling this case, and extended the existing test-suite to include testing of the case where 'uk' hasn't been defined as a valid code. 0.003 May 1997 First public release to CPAN