On 2023-09-07 05:03:06 (+0800), Paul Eggert via tz wrote:
Or perhaps Letu is referring to the line "TR Turkey" in the iso3166.tab file. Although iso3166 already has a comment about this sort of thing, the comment could be more explicit. Proposed patch attached and installed into the TZDB development repository (comments welcome as usual).
I don't like the rewording of this comment. Is "confusion among non-experts" [about the name of a country] really that much of a problem? I don't remember hearing from too many confused non-experts when Swaziland was renamed Eswatini in 2019. I don't think there's a compelling argument not to follow the Swaziland -> Eswatini precedent and rename Turkey -> Türkiye. To avoid churn later, we should also rename Czech Republic -> Czechia at this time. That change was made in 2016. [Tongue firmly in cheek: Seven years should be enough for even the most confused non-experts ... those who weren't fatally injured by the shock of how swiftly the Eswatini renaming was adopted.] Philip -- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Alternative Enterprises