Review Request 129691: digital-clock: Update iso-3166 codes in timezones

[Aleix Pol Gonzalez]

> On Dec. 20, 2016, 11:46 p.m., Pino Toscano wrote:
> > TBH I don't think the Congo and CZ changes are somehow needed, since the current names are already the official names for the countries.
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> Jiri Bohac wrote:
>     The reason is consistency.
>     The short names are used for all the remaining countries. It's inconsistent to use the long name for two of them.
>     Political names are not meant to be used in UI. You don't see "French Republic" or "Federal Republic of Germany" in dropdown lists.
>     CZ and CG now have an official short name just as the others, so it should be used just as the others'.
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> Pino Toscano wrote:
>     Regarding CG, just using "Congo" is IMHO way too ambiguous, whereas the official names (which are much longer) are better in that -- hence I'd use them to help disambiguating.
>     Regarding CZ, the "Czechia" change was done in iso-codes 3.71, released slightly more than one month ago (Nov 15th, 2016) -- that is a bit too new, no stable version of popular distros ship it already, so NACK for now (it could be changed in one year or so).

On the other hand, when stable distros pick it up, it should be there.
Also it's been changed in other places already.

I don't think that it's a too early adoption is a good reasoning, unless there's possibility that ISO will back off.


- Aleix


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On Dec. 20, 2016, 10:57 p.m., Jiri Bohac wrote:
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> (Updated Dec. 20, 2016, 10:57 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma and Albert Astals Cid.
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> Repository: plasma-workspace
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> Description
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> Update the list of country names to the current names in iso-codes
> (as output by isoquery -c).
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> The motivation is updating the name of Czechia as a followup to
> https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/129644/
> As suggested by Albert Astals Cid, fixing the name in i10n is not enough: 
> country names are hardcoded in many places and they need to be fixed separately.
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> Diffs
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>   applets/digital-clock/plugin/timezonesi18n.cpp 10650f8 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/129691/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Jiri Bohac
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