Locale-Codes 3.10

on Perl CPAN

NEW CODE(s)

Reorganized code
Moved support files into the Locale::Codes namespace.

The work done in each of the Locale::XXX modules was virtually
identical to each other. It has all been moved to a central module
and the Locale::XXX modules are now just wrappers.

(!) Changed XXX_code2code behavior slightly
In previous versions, passing in the same code set for both code set
arguments would automatically return undef. For example:

 country_code2code('bo',LOCALE_CODE_ALPHA_2,LOCALE_CODE_ALPHA_2);
    => undef

This doesn't seem like reasonable behavior, so it has been changed
to allow the same code set:

 country_code2code('bo',LOCALE_CODE_ALPHA_2,LOCALE_CODE_ALPHA_2);
    => 'bo'

Note that if an invalid code is passed in, undef will still be
returned:

 country_code2code('bol',LOCALE_CODE_ALPHA_2,LOCALE_CODE_ALPHA_2);
    => undef

Added many semi-private routines
Previous versions had only two semi-private routines: rename_country
and alias_code which had the ability to modify the internal data in
a couple very limited ways. It was requested (in an anonymous
posting by someone named Steve and also by Steve Hay) that better
support for modifying internal data, so a full set of routines were
added.

The full set of routines includes:

 rename_country
 rename_language
 rename_currency
 rename_script


 add_country
 add_language
 add_currency
 add_script


 delete_country
 delete_language
 delete_currency
 delete_script


 add_country_alias
 add_language_alias
 add_currency_alias
 add_script_alias


 delete_country_alias
 delete_language_alias
 delete_currency_alias
 delete_script_alias


 rename_country_code
 rename_language_code
 rename_currency_code
 rename_script_code


 add_country_code_alias
 add_language_code_alias
 add_currency_code_alias
 add_script_code_alias


 delete_country_code_alias
 delete_language_code_alias
 delete_currency_code_alias
 delete_script_code_alias

New aliases
Added "UK" alias. Steve Hay