Currently maintained by:

   Sullivan Beck (sbeck@cpan.org)

Any suggestions, bug reports, or donations :-) should be sent to me.

This document is automatically generated from the document:

   Locale::Codes::Changes

and that document should be considered the canonical source of change

related information.

3.57  2018-06-01  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

3.56  2018-03-01  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

3.55  2017-11-17  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

  -  (*) Deprecated in core

        Because correct usage of any of the Locale::Codes modules requires

        that they be kept up-to-date, I have long felt that it should not be

        distributed as a core module. After discussion on the perl5-porters

        list, it is agreed, and the deprecation process has been started.

        Starting with perl 5.28.0, Locale-Codes will be flagged as deprecated,

        and it will be removed in version 5.30.0 .

        Thanks to p5p-porters (especially Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsaker) for

        discussion and guidance.

  -  Changes from a github pull request applied

        A couple minor changes (updated .travis.yml to include newest

        versions of perl; and a couple changes to pod_coverage.t) reported

        by lancew on GitHub.

  -  Got rid of Build.PL

        Simplified things by only supporting one of Makefile.PL/Build.PL

        (and the latter has been removed from perl core some time ago). RT

        123572

  -  Fixed INSTALLDIRS

        The behavior of installing core modules changed in 5.12 a bit, and

        Makefile.PL now reflects that. RT 123571

3.54  2017-09-01  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

3.53  2017-07-25  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

  -  Fixed the default error condition in legacy modules.

        With the addition of the OO module, better error handling was added

        (and it was on by default). The non-OO (legacy) modules did not

        report errors, so code that uses them, would now behave differently

        if invalid data were passed in.

        I have turned off error handling by default in the legacy modules.

        The show_errors method was added to each of the non-OO modules to

        report errors if desired.

        Reported by dmaestro on GitHub.

3.52  2017-06-01  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

3.51  2017-04-10  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

  -  Tests no longer require (.) in INC

        As of perl 5.25.11, (.) is being removed from INC. I had to adjust

        the tests accordingly.

3.50  2017-03-01  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

  -  (*) Rewrote as OO module

        The core module (Locale::Codes) is now an OO module that can be used

        directly. All of the other modules (Locale::Codes::TYPE) are still

        the older functional interfaces and remain unchanged.

  -  Added some constants

        Historically, the constant names used to identify the codesets have

        been named inconsistently. The original constants for codesets are:

           Type      Constants

           country   LOCALE_CODE_*

           currency  LOCALE_CURR_*

           language  LOCALE_LANG_*

           script    LOCALE_SCRIPT_*

           langfam   LOCALE_LANGFAM_*

           langvar   LOCALE_LANGVAR_*

           langext   LOCALE_LANGEXT_*

        For consistencies sake, I have added some new codes (which are

        otherwise identical to the irregularly named codes):

           country   LOCALE_COUNTRY_*

           currency  LOCALE_CURRENCY_*

           language  LOCALE_LANGUAGE_*

        Going forward, all constants will include the full name of the code

        type.

  -  Non-OO modules are now generated

        All non-OO modules are now automatically generated. This will make

        it easier to keep them 100% consistent as well as making it easier

        to add new types of code sets.

        All of the documentation for them is also generated except for the

        description of the code sets. That has been moved into the

        Locale::Codes::Types document.

  -  Fixed a bug where constants were not exported

        Some of the constants for some of the newer code sets were not

        exported properly. This was fixed when I started generating the

        non-OO modules, but was reported (after I had already fixed it in

        development) as RT 119741 .

3.42  2016-11-30  sbeck

  -  Added Czech republic aliases back in

        Common Czech republic aliases disappeared from the standards, so I

        added them back in. Rob Emery

3.41  2016-11-18  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

        Jiri Bohac noted that they were needed so this was release a couple

        weeks earlier than planned.

3.40  2016-09-01  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

3.39  2016-05-31  sbeck

  -  Added UN codes back in

        The UN codes have been added back in as their own list of codes.

        Jarkko Hietaniemi

  -  Added GENC codes

        The GENC codes have been added. These are the new US Government

        codes that replace the FIPS-10 codes. They are based on, but not

        identical to the ISO 3166 codes.

3.38  2016-03-02  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

  -  Tests reworked

        Improved test suite (and made some changes to Codes.pm) based on

        Devel::Cover. Test suite now has 100% coverage.

3.37  2015-12-01  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

3.36  2015-09-01  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

  -  (!) Removed alias_code function

        The alias_code function was preserved for backward compatibility,

        but has been deprecated since 3.20. It has been removed.

3.35  2015-06-01  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

  -  Documentation improvements

        Many changes to the formatting in the documentation to improve it.

        Suggested by Pete Houston.

3.34  2015-03-01  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

3.33  2014-12-01  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

  -  Filled out LOCALE_LANG_TERM codeset

        The terminologic language codes only included codes from languages

        where the ISO specified both a bibliographic code and a terminologic

        code. If both are not specified, the better solution was to use the

        code for both code sets. Prompted by a suggestion by Jarkko

        Hietaniemi.

  -  Moved repository to GitHub

        Suggested by Gabor Szabo.

3.32  2014-09-01  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

3.31  2014-06-01  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

  -  Bug fixes

        Fixed a bug in the scripts used to extract data from spreadsheets

        that prevented the SHP currency code from being found. RT 94229

3.30  2014-03-04  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

  -  alias_code remove date set

        The alias_code function exists for backward compatibility. It has

        been deprecated since version 3.20 when it was replaced by

        rename_country_code. The alias_code function will be removed in the

        December 2014 release.

  -  Bug fixes

        Fixed a problem that was preventing rename_* functions to not work.

        RT 92680.

3.29  2014-01-27  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

  -  ISO 3166 country codes improved

        ISO 3166 is now browsable online (previously, only the alpha-2 codes

        were) and it contains more accurate information than the previous

        sources, so I've switched to using the full standard. In response to

        RT 92303 which reported some codes being 'retired' that should not

        have been.

  -  Bug fixes

        Fixed the pod test files so that pod tests won't get run at install

        time. In response to RT 91167.

3.28  2013-12-02  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

3.27  2013-09-03  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

  -  * FIPS-10 country codes removed

        As of June, the FIPS codes are not being published in their

        entirety. Only changes to the codes are published. This adds a huge

        layer of complexity to maintaining the set, which is not worth doing

        considering that the set is deprecated. As such, the code set is no

        longer supported.

3.26  2013-06-03  sbeck

  -  Documentation fixes

        Some of the examples were not correct. RT 84589

        Some typos corrected. RT 85692

3.25  2013-03-01  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

3.24  2012-12-03  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

  -  Syria alias

        Syria added as an alias. RT 82747

  -  FIPS-10 country codes deprecated

        The FIPS-10 document is being withdrawn. It was deprecated in 2008,

        and is being updated now only until all the agencies that use it

        have switched to something else. The current version no longer lists

        the long names for countries. These long names (such as 'Republic of

        Albania' for Albania) only appeared in the old FIPS-10 document

        which is no longer available, so they are no longer available in

        this module.

        I will continue to support the FIPS-10 codeset as long as it is

        available, but at that point, it will be withdrawn immediately. If

        an official end-of-life date is announced, I will include a notice

        here. Otherwise, support for the codeset will be discontinued when

        the document is withdrawn.

        You are encouraged to no longer use the FIPS-10 codeset.

  -  Domain country codes now come from ISO 3166

        The IANA domain codes have changed slightly. The IANA no longer

        publishes a list of countries associated with their codes. Instead,

        they use the ISO 3166 codes and country names. However, they support

        a few non-standard codes, so I will continue to maintain this

        codeset. The domain codes are now lowercase to correspond to the ISO

        3166 codes.

3.23  2012-09-01  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

3.22  2012-06-01  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

  -  Updated perl version required

        Changed 'require 5.002' (which dated back to the version 2.xx

        Locale-Codes) to 'require 5.006'. Some features used in Locale-Codes

        are not supported that far back. Nicholas Clark

  -  Sorted deprecated codes

        The codes in the generated deprecated codes modules were not sorted

        making version diffs bigger than they should be. Nicholas Clark

3.21  2012-03-01  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

3.20  2011-12-01  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

  -  Added limited support for deprecated codes

        The code2XXX, XXX2code, all_XXX_codes, and all_XXX_names functions

        now support retired codes. RT 71124

  -  Fixed capitalization

        The 'South Sudan' country was all caps. RT 71024

  -  Pod tests off by default

        The pod tests will not run at install time. RT 71122

  -  Codesets may be specified by name

        All codesets may be specified by a constant or by their name now.

        Previously, they were specified only by a constant.

  -  alias_code deprecated

        The alias_code function exists for backward compatibility. It has

        been replaced by rename_country_code . The alias_code function will

        be removed sometime after September, 2013 .

  -  Code cleanup

        All work is now done in the central module (Locale::Codes).

        Previously, some was still done in the wrapper modules

        (Locale::Codes::*) but that is gone now.

  -  Added LangFam module

        Added Language Family codes (langfam) as defined in ISO 639-5.

3.18  2011-08-31  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

  -  No longer use CIA data

        The CIA world added non-standard values, so I no longer use it as a

        source of data. Based on a report by Michiel Beijen.

3.17  2011-06-28  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

  -  Added new types of codes

        Added Language Extension codes (langext) and Language Variation

        codes (langvar) as defined in the IANA language registry.

  -  Added new codeset(s)

        Added language codes from ISO 639-5

        Added language/script codes from the IANA language subtag registry

  -  Bug fixes

        Fixed an uninitialized value warning. RT 67438

        Fixed the return value for the all_XXX_codes and all_XXX_names

        functions. RT 69100

  -  Reorganized code

        Reorganized modules to move Locale::MODULE to Locale::Codes::MODULE

        to allow for cleaner future additions. The original four modules

        (Locale::Language, Locale::Currency, Locale::Country,

        Locale::Script) will continue to work, but all new sets of codes

        will be added in the Locale::Codes namespace.

3.16  2011-03-01  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

3.15  2010-12-02  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

  -  Minor fixes

        Added version number to Makefile.PL/Build.PL requirement for POD

        testing modules. RT 62247

        Changed 'use vars' to 'our'

3.14  2010-09-28  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

  -  Bug fixes

        Stripped out some HTML that got included with some codes.

3.13  2010-06-04  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

3.12  2010-04-06  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

  -  Reorganized code

        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 new codeset(s)

        Added the IANA domain names to Country

  -  Bug fixes

        Fixed a problem that produced warnings with perl 5.11.5. Jerry D.

        Hedden

3.10  2010-02-18  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

  -  Reorganized code

        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 modules are now just wrappers.

  -  (!) Changed XXX_code2code behavior slightly

        In previous versions, passing in the same code set for both code set

        arguments would automatically return undef. For example:

           country_code2code('bo',LOCALE_CODE_ALPHA_2,LOCALE_CODE_ALPHA_2);

              => undef

        This doesn't seem like reasonable behavior, so it has been changed

        to allow the same code set:

           country_code2code('bo',LOCALE_CODE_ALPHA_2,LOCALE_CODE_ALPHA_2);

              => 'bo'

        Note that if an invalid code is passed in, undef will still be

        returned:

           country_code2code('bol',LOCALE_CODE_ALPHA_2,LOCALE_CODE_ALPHA_2);

              => undef

  -  Added many semi-private routines

        Previous versions had only two semi-private routines: rename_country

        and alias_code which had the ability to modify the internal data in

        a couple very limited ways. It was requested (in an anonymous

        posting by someone named Steve and also by Steve Hay) that better

        support for modifying internal data, so a full set of routines were

        added.

        The full set of routines includes:

           rename_country

           rename_language

           rename_currency

           rename_script

           add_country

           add_language

           add_currency

           add_script

           delete_country

           delete_language

           delete_currency

           delete_script

           add_country_alias

           add_language_alias

           add_currency_alias

           add_script_alias

           delete_country_alias

           delete_language_alias

           delete_currency_alias

           delete_script_alias

           rename_country_code

           rename_language_code

           rename_currency_code

           rename_script_code

           add_country_code_alias

           add_language_code_alias

           add_currency_code_alias

           add_script_code_alias

           delete_country_code_alias

           delete_language_code_alias

           delete_currency_code_alias

           delete_script_code_alias

  -  New aliases

        Added "UK" alias. Steve Hay

3.01  2010-02-15  sbeck

  -  Fixed Makefile.PL and Build.PL

        They now install as core modules as they are supposed to. Reported

        in RT 54526

3.00  2010-02-10  sbeck

  -  NEW CODE(s)

  -  (*) New maintainer

        From 1997 to 2004, Locale::Codes was maintained by Neil Bowers.

        Unfortunately, no updates were made from June 2004 to January 2010.

        During that time, a number of changes have been made to the

        standards since then, so the data included was out-of-date.

        I contacted Neil to get his permission to assume maintenance of the

        module, and he kindly agreed.

  -  (*) (!) All codes are generated from standards

        All of the values returned by the various functions are now values

        directly from the standards. This means that the values returned in

        the 2.xx series are not necessarily the same as the values returned

        here.

        As an example, the ISO 3166 standard which lists country codes

        refers to the country associated with the code "bo" as "Bolivia,

        Plurinational State of", so that is what is returned. In the 2.xx

        series, "Bolivia" was returned. Also, the country names vary from

        one standard to another. So the code "bol" which is maintained by

        the United Nations returns the name of the country as "Bolivia

        (Plurinational State of)". Some common aliases have been added, so

        you can still request a code associated with a county name

        "Bolivia".

        Since the data comes from the standards, some "incorrect" values are

        no longer supported. For example, 2.07 treated "Zaire" as an alias

        for "Congo", but the country changed it's name, and "Zaire" is not

        in the standard, so it has been dropped in 3.00.

  -  Added new codeset(s)

        FIPS 10 country codes (requested in RT 1755)

        Alpha-3 and Term language codes (requested in RT 11730)

        Numeric currency codes (requested in RT 18797)

  -  (*) (!) Locale::Script changed

        In 2.xx, Locale::Script assigned scripts to country codes, which is

        NOT how it is done currently in the standards. It appears that an

        older version of ISO 15924 did this, but I haven't found an old

        version to confirm that, and in any case, that is not the case in

        the current standards.

        As a result, the Locale::Script module is completely incompatible

        with the 2.xx version with respect to the types of codes it

        supports. None of the old codes will work.

  -  Added missing functions

        I've added in some functions which were "missing" previously (since

        there was only one set of codes supported, the code2code functions

        didn't apply):

           language_code2code

           currency_code2code

        so the interfaces for each type of codes are consistent.

  -  (!) Dropped support for _alias_code

        In Locale::Country, _alias_code was an allowed, but deprecated

        function which was documented to be supported in the 2.xx series.

        I've removed it.

  -  (!) All functions return the standard value

        code2country (and other equivalent functions) 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 differ based on the CODESET)

  -  (!) rename_country function altered

        The rename_country function 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).

2.07  2004-06-10  neilb

        Made $_ local in the initialization 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 misspelled 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  2001-02-13  neilb

        Added Locale::Currency, contribution from Michael Hennecke.

        Added test suite for it (t/currency.t) and added test cases to

        t/all.t for the all_* functions.

1.04  2000-12-21  neilb

        Fixed very minor typos from 1.03!

1.03  2000-12-??  neilb

        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  2000-05-04  neilb

        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  1998-03-09  neilb

        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 test suite 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  1997-05-09  neilb

        First public release to CPAN