New countries

We should run proper updates for these whenever possible (this will also flush the safe to safe_value caching issue as a benefit)

Newsletter VI-9 "Name changes for Fiji and Myanmar as well as other minor corrections

2011-06-12

Current record:
"BQ","BES","Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba","Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba","535","NA","1"

Requires changes from "Saint" to "Sint"
Name: Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
Official: Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba

"FJ","FJI","Fiji","Republic of the Fiji Islands","242","OC","1"
Change official name to just "Republic of Fiji"

Note: ISO 3166 is actually "the Republic of Fiji" but the word "the" has been removed from most official records in the db.

No changes:
"NU","NIU","Niue","Niue","570","OC","1"

This should have been "Republic of Niue", now shortened to just "Niue"

These have been committed (38c41f4). This contains an update script that will flush any stale cache data and direct the users to the import URL for syncing with the countries csv import file.

ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency has officially assigned the country codes for South Sudan as follows:

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code: SS
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code: SSD

Ref: http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/updates_on_iso_3166.htm

Added to 7.x-2.x: ffb0163 but not update script.

Libya is now just Libya. Change required is to reduce the official name to just Libya.

Side note, there is no actual official English long name in the newsletter, but the french names are both just Libye now.

See http://www.iso.org/iso/nl_vi-11_name_change_for_libya.pdf

Removed SS from issue summary, added short list of common user defined codes.

Update 14 Feb 2012 - Country list and short names (name field) is 100% in sync with the ISO-3166-1 standard.

ISO 3166-1 NEWSLETTER VI-12 (http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_3166-1_nl_vi-12_name_change_for_hungary.pdf)
Date: 2012-02-15

-"HU","HUN","Hungary","Republic of Hungary","348","EU","1"
+"HU","HUN","Hungary","Hungary","348","EU","1"

ISO 3166-1 NEWSLETTER VI-13 (http://www.iso.org/iso/nl_vi-13_name_change_for_eritrea.pdf)
Date of change: 2012-08-02

Nothing of interest: "State of Eritrea" > "the State of Eritrea".

The module excludes "the" in this context, i.e. "Federal Republic of Germany" is used instead of "the Federal Republic of Germany"

ISO 3166-1 NEWSLETTER VI-14 (http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_3166-1_newsletter_vi-14_name_change_state_of_...)
Date of change: 2013‑02‑06

ISO 3166-1 NEWSLETTER VI-15 ( http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_3166-1_newsletter__vi-15_name_change_for_papu...). The official name was defined as per our current import file so no changes required.

Name change for Somalia
ISO 3166-1 NEWSLETTER VI-16 (http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_3166-1_newsletter__vi-16_name_change_for_soma...)

The official name was defined as per our current import file so no changes required.

CV => Cape Verde Cabo Verde

Change: 2013-11-26
Ref: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:CV

@kenorb
The module tries to stay 100% in sync with the ISO, with configurable overrides to let users manually add additional countries. However a section in the readme could be a valid option with a list of disputed countries and suggested user defined codes.

Also, just wondering on your chosen ISO3, as it is actually defined as:

UNK identifies Kosovo residents to whom travel documents were issued by the United Nations Interim Administration in Kosovo (UNMIK) as defined in the ISO/IEC 7501-1

Not that I could find anything better :/

https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:GY
2018-11-06 Change of the full name

I think this was just appending the "the" to the long form, which is excluded by default on all countries long forms