2 ChangeLog for Locale-Codes Distribution
5 * made $_ local in the initialisation code for each module
6 change back-propagated from Perl distribution
7 * removed two non ISO-8859-1 characters from language names
8 change back-propagated from Perl distribution
9 * added the following aliases, with a test case for each
10 - Burma added to Myanmar
11 - French Southern and Antarctic Lands to
12 French Southern Territories
14 * "Canadian Dollar" was mis-spelled as "Candian Dollar"
15 - noted by Nick Cabatoff, patch from Michael Hennecke
16 * Changes to Locale::Country reflecting changes in ISO 3166
17 - added Aland Islands (ax, ala, 248)
18 - YUGOSLAVIA is now SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
21 891 => 891 (unchanged)
22 (YUGOSLAVIA retained as an alias)
23 - EAST TIMOR changed to TIMOR-LESTE
24 (old name retained as an alias)
25 - three letter code for Romania changed from ROM to ROU
26 * ZAIRE is now CONGO, THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE
29 180 => 180 (unchanged)
30 (ZAIRE retained as alias)
34 * The four modules which have data after __DATA__ weren't
35 closing the DATA filehandle after reading from it,
36 which they should. Bug and patch from Steve Hay.
40 * Added three letter codes for the countries that were missing
41 them. Patch from TJ Mather.
42 * Documentation bug: one of the examples used => where the
43 lvalue was a constant, which isn't allowed, unless you
44 put the () with the constant to force the right interpretation.
45 Pointed out by TJ Mather and MYT.
46 * Updated the URL for the appendix in the CIA world factbook.
51 * updated according to changes in ISO 3166-1 described
52 in ISO 3166-1 newsletters V-4 and V-5, dated 2002-05-20:
53 - Kazakstan is now "Kazakhstan"
54 - Macau is now "Macao"
55 The old names are retained as aliases.
57 The alpha-2 and alpha-3 codes for East Timor have changed:
60 the numeric code stays 626. If you want to support the old
61 codes, you can use the semi-private function alias_code().
65 * Fixed a typo in the alias for the Vatican, reported (with patch)
67 * Added "Moldova" as an alias for "Moldova, Republic of"
68 * Updated Makefile.PL to include AUTHOR and ABSTRACT
72 * added semi-private routine rename_country() to Locale::Country,
73 based on a patch from Iain Chalmers.
74 * added test rename.t for the above function.
75 * renamed _alias_code to be alias_code. Have retained the old
76 name for backwards compatibility. Will remove it when the
77 major version number next changes.
81 * Split the documentation for all modules into separate pod files.
82 * Made sure all =over were =over 4; some were other values.
83 * The code2code() methods had one more shift than was needed.
87 * Created Locale::Script which provides an interface to the
88 ISO codes for identification of scripts (writing scripts,
89 rather than perl style scripts). The codes are defined
90 by ISO 15924, which is currently in final draft.
91 Thanks to Jarkko for pointing out this new standard.
92 All three code sets are supported, and a test-suite added.
94 * Added support for country name variants to Locale::Country,
97 country2code('United States')
98 country2code('United States of America')
100 This had been in the LIMITATIONS section since the first version.
101 Patch from TJ Mather <tjmather@tjmather.com> with additional
102 variants from me. Added test-cases for these.
104 * Added VERSION to Locale::Constants. Thanks to Jarkko for
105 pointing that it was missing.
107 * Should really have bumped major version with previous release,
108 since there was a change to the API.
110 1.06 2001-03-04 neilb
112 Added Locale::Constants, which defines three symbols
113 for identifying which codeset is being used:
119 Updated Locale::Country to support all three code sets
120 defined by ISO 3166. This was requested by Keith Wall.
121 I haven't added multiple codeset support to the other
122 modules yet - I'll wait until someone asks for them.
126 Added Locale::Currency, contribution from Michael Hennecke.
127 Added testsuite for it (t/currency.t) and added testcases
128 to t/all.t for the all_* functions.
132 Fixed very minor typos from 1.03!
136 Updated Locale::Country:
137 - fixed spelling of a few countries
138 - added link to a relevant page from CIA world factbook
140 Updated Locale::Language:
141 - fixed typo in the documentation (ISO 939 should be 639)
145 Updated Locale::Country and Locale::Language to reflect changes
146 in the relevant ISO standards. These mainly reflect languages
147 which are new to the relevant standard, and changes in the
148 spelling of some country names.
150 Added official URLs for the standards to the SEE ALSO sections
151 of the doc for each module.
153 Thanks to Jarkko Hietaniemi for pointing me at the pages
154 with latest versions of ISO 3166 and 639.
158 Added Locale::Country::_alias_code() so that 'uk' can be added
159 as the code for "United Kingdom", if you want it.
160 This was prompted by Ed Jordan <ed@chronos.net>
162 Added a new testsuite for handling this case, and extended the
163 existing test-suite to include testing of the case where
164 'uk' hasn't been defined as a valid code.
168 First public release to CPAN