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Locale-Codes Distribution
v2.07
For changes in this release, please see the ChangeLog file.
This distribution contains four Perl modules which can be used to process
ISO codes for identifying languages, countries, scripts,
and currencies & funds.
Locale::Language
Two letter codes for language identification (ISO 639).
For example, 'en' is the code for 'English'.
Locale::Country
Codes for country identification (ISO 3166). This module
supports the three different code sets defined by the
standard: alpha-2, alpha-3, and numeric codes.
For example, 'bo' is the code for 'Bolivia'.
Locale::Currency
Three letter codes for currency and fund identification (ISO 4217).
For example, 'sek' is the code for 'Swedish Krona'.
Locale::Script
Codes for script identification (ISO 15924). This module supports
the three different code sets defined by the standard:
alpha-2, alpha-3, and numeric codes.
To install these modules, you should just have to run the following:
% perl Makefile.PL
% make
% make test
% make install
The modules are documented using pod. When you "make install", you
will get four man-pages: Locale::Language, Locale::Country,
Locale::Currency, Locale::Script.
The first version of Locale::Currency was written by Michael Hennecke,
with modifications for inclusion by me. Kudos to Michael.
Please let me know if you experience any problems with these modules,
or have any ideas for additions.
Neil Bowers
<neil at bowers.com>
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ChangeLog for Locale-Codes Distribution
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 <tjmather at tjmather.com> 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 <ed at chronos.net>
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
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