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Alex Little added a comment - 24/Jan/08 08:43 PM
Just voted for this as I'd noticed the anomaly too. I discovered a problem when I'm using the town & country code to geocode users locations and the users have selected "wales" as their country. Most geocoding systems don't appear to reconise "WA" as a country code and require it to be converted to "GB". So my preference would be just to remove Wales from the country list and only have UK, rather than England/Scotland/Wales/NI, as this would resolve the issues I'm having
 Hmm, look at that, Wales IS in there! I don't know who added it but I'm guessing it was Ray Kingdon many years ago.
The list is SUPPOSED to be those only recognised by ISO (precisely for the kind of reasons Alex points out): http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/english_country_names_and_code_elements.htm I think we should remove it in 1.9 and fix all existing user accounts during the upgrade. James, if you want a region field you can add that using the custom user profile fields in 1.8 and later. Mat, can you please review this file against ISO codes for 1.9 (only) and
The list is now in 19_STABLE. The ISO also distributes an official French version that we could use. Translators will have to come up with translations for other languages.
Here is the address for French country names:
http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/french_country_names_and_code_elements.htm  Joseph File \moodle\lang\en_utf8\countries.php should be encoded UTF8 because it contains French accents for countries such as Côte d'Ivoire, etc.
I am attaching correctly encoded file. Joseph correctly utf-8 encoded coutries file
do I miss something, where is the upgrade code for existing sites and backup restore?
Sorry, I missed the upgrade part.. will do that now. Thanks for the re-encoding, Joseph.
Ok, upgrade path commited to 19_STABLE, 18_STABLE, 17_STABLE and 16_STABLE. The unicode-encoded file was also commited earlier today. The official ISO French version of the list was commited by martignoni earlier today.
Commited the upgrade path for backup files .. along with the country list for older version (which I had apparently forgotten to commit yesterday!)
Verified on 1.9b4. Closing. Thanks.
I have my doubts on the accuracy of the used list: Zaïre is in it, and that is not a country any more since 17 May 1997
In fact in countries.php (english lang pack), there are two strings for the $string['CD'] key, one for the correct "Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The" and one later in the file for "Zaire", which should indeed be deleted.
I'm surprised, since the text version of the ISO (http://www.iso.org/iso/iso3166_en_code_lists.txt Re-opening since the removing of Zaire in the file.
Sorry for the spam: another duplicate key: $string['VA']. The correct one is "Holy See (Vatican City State)". The other should be deleted.
PS In the above comment, please read "until" instead of "since". The problem of Zaire is not unique. Bouvet Island is an uinhabited island belonging to Norway, and Svalbard and Jan Mayen islands are also under the Norwegians dominion. The Cocos Islands, which along with Christmas Island are territories of Australia, as are the barren uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands. Hong Kong has been officially part of China for over a decade. Mayotte is included in a French Department and not independent; Wallis and Futuna Islands are part of French Polynesian territory; Montenegro and Serbia are only listed as "Serbia and Montenegro" and Kosovo is still today a province of Serbia, but perhaps not by the end of the week. And let's not forget the thorny issue of "Palestine" which has less control over its fate than Wales with which this discussion started..
Removed both duplicates.. This should fix the issue for good, at least until a new list comes out of ISO.
Thanks Matthieu. Closing again.
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Need to create more "countries" in drop down menu
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