kernel32: Rename Czech Republic to Czechia

Jan Havran havran.jan at email.cz
Mon Mar 26 14:38:52 CDT 2018


On 26.3.2018 19:49, André Hentschel wrote:
> Am 26.03.2018 um 17:50 schrieb wylda at volny.cz:
>> ______________________________________________________________
>>> Od: Nikolay Sivov <bunglehead at gmail.com>
>>> Komu: wine-devel at winehq.org
>>> Datum: 24.03.2018 19:38
>>> Předmět: Re: kernel32: Rename Czech Republic to Czechia
>>>
>>> This looks like something to avoid until it becomes necessary.
>>>
>>>
>> Ufff, many thanks Nikolay ;-)) Win10 still mentions Czech Republic
>> and hopefully will stay there forever.
>>
>> W.
>>
>>
> Well... :)))
> This and my other iphlpapi patch are for https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2018-March/124577.html
> And here you go on Win10 1709 / Build 16299:
>
> msvcrt:locale start dlls/msvcrt/tests/locale.c -
> locale.c:151: Chinese_China.936=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936
> locale.c:161: Test failed: ret = Czech_Czechia.1250
> locale.c:166: Test failed: ret = Czech_Czechia.1250
> locale.c:759: Tests skipped: Skipping __p___mb_cur_max tests
> 0518:locale: 400 tests executed (0 marked as todo, 2 failures), 1 skipped.
>
> They are using the quite new name now:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_the_Czech_Republic#Adoption_of_Czechia
>
>

I think it will turn into flame war, but the "Czech Republic", like 
"Federal Republic of Germany", is the official English name. If we want 
to use short names for some reason, then "Czechia" [1] is better IMO, 
like "Germany" [2] for example.

[1] https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:CZ
[2] https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:DE




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