Bug#864751: Need common names for Iran, North Korea, South Korea, Palestine, Russia, and Syria

2017-06-18 Thread Christian Theune
Hi, Alex asked me to way in here as the maintainer of pycountry. I would always recommend a solution that allows people to customize their usage based on their views and needs. In PyCountry you can, relatively easily, extend or modify the database in the packages at runtime of your software to

Bug#864751: Need common names for Iran, North Korea, South Korea, Palestine, Russia, and Syria

2017-06-14 Thread Alex Henrie
Christian and Tobias: Thanks to both of you for your replies. 2017-06-13 22:50 GMT-06:00 Christian PERRIER : > I introduced "common names" in order to solve TWO specific cases that > had very strong political implications, *including in the said > countries themselves : Taiwan and Macedonia. These

Bug#864751: Need common names for Iran, North Korea, South Korea, Palestine, Russia, and Syria

2017-06-14 Thread Dr. Tobias Quathamer
Am 14.06.2017 um 06:50 schrieb Christian PERRIER: However, I think that diverting the idea behind "common names" to implement so-called "commonly used" names, goes too far. If these countries want to be named this way, their national standard body can change that by following standard ISO-3166 pr

Bug#864751: Need common names for Iran, North Korea, South Korea, Palestine, Russia, and Syria

2017-06-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Alex Henrie (alexhenri...@gmail.com): > Package: iso-codes > Version: 3.75-1 > Tags: patch > > I have to convert a list of country names to ISO codes, but my script > is failing on Iran, North Korea, South Korea, Palestine, Russia, and > Syria. I submitted patches on the mailing list, but

Bug#864751: Need common names for Iran, North Korea, South Korea, Palestine, Russia, and Syria

2017-06-13 Thread Alex Henrie
Package: iso-codes Version: 3.75-1 Tags: patch I have to convert a list of country names to ISO codes, but my script is failing on Iran, North Korea, South Korea, Palestine, Russia, and Syria. I submitted patches on the mailing list, but haven't gotten any response: http://lists.alioth.debian.org