kernel32: Rename Czech Republic to Czechia

Nikolay Sivov bunglehead at gmail.com
Mon Mar 26 16:32:01 CDT 2018


On 3/26/2018 11:53 PM, André Hentschel wrote:
> Am 26.03.2018 um 21:38 schrieb Jan Havran:
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
> 
> I know, but in the places where we use Germany, we currently use Czech Republic, which could be seen as inconsistent.
> My intention was just to make the tests happy for newer Win10 versions, but marking the new behaviour as broken() seems very wrong in this case.
> We could mark it as todo_wine() if there is enough reason
> 

We can also accepts both and forget about it for now. A question to
Czech speakers/Windows users, did any version below Win10 get similar
update? I don't see that on my Win7 installation for example.




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