#1294 error in english translation 2.5.7 countries

[Michael Albertsen]

Looks like a small bug has sneaked into translation file of countries.

In htdocs/languages/english/countries.php

line 61
define('_COUNTRY_CS','Serbia & Montenegro (former)'); // Not listed in ISO 3166

and 201
define('_COUNTRY_RS','Serbia');

Think 61 should be
define('_COUNTRY_CS','Czechoslovakia (former)'); // Not listed in ISO 3166

[Richard Griffith]

Actually, this is meticulously correct to ISO-3166. RS is Serbia. CS was used for Czechoslovakia (pre ISO-3166-2,) but was transitionally reserved for Serbia & Montenegro, but then Serbia & Montenegro were separated before the dust settled.

See:
https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:CS
https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:CSHH

This would come down which generation of old we choose to use. Honestly, I think it is unrealistic to expect this list to serve as a historical reference, due to issues like this. Since the CS code is only transitionally reserved, maybe it shouldn't be represented?

Is there an actual problem created by the changed definition? It changed in XOOPS 2.5.5, so it has been this way for a while.

Interesting situation.

[Michael Albertsen]

For me personally there is no problem just noticed Serbia represented 2
times with 2 different defines, which made me wonder why.

Den 18-06-2014 19:13, Richard Griffith skrev:

Actually, this is meticulously correct to ISO-3166. RS is Serbia. CS
was used for Czechoslovakia (pre ISO-3166-2,) but was transitionally
reserved for Serbia & Montenegro, but then Serbia & Montenegro were
separated before the dust settled.

See:
https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:CS
https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:CSHH

This would come down which generation of old we choose to use.
Honestly, I think it is unrealistic to expect this list to serve as a
historical reference, due to issues like this. Since the CS code is
only transitionally reserved, maybe it shouldn't be represented?

Is there an actual problem created by the changed definition? It
changed in XOOPS 2.5.5, so it has been this way for a while.

Interesting situation.

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[bugs:#1294] http://sourceforge.net/p/xoops/bugs/1294/ error in
english translation 2.5.7 countries

Status: open
Group: XOOPS_2.5.x
Labels: languages countries english translations
Created: Wed Jun 18, 2014 12:26 PM UTC by Michael Albertsen
Last Updated: Wed Jun 18, 2014 12:26 PM UTC
Owner: nobody

Looks like a small bug has sneaked into translation file of countries.

In htdocs/languages/english/countries.php

line 61
define('_COUNTRY_CS','Serbia & Montenegro (former)'); // Not listed in
ISO 3166

and 201
define('_COUNTRY_RS','Serbia');

Think 61 should be
define('_COUNTRY_CS','Czechoslovakia (former)'); // Not listed in ISO 3166

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