standard.inc does not match ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

Pal, keep the politics out of here. There are no Court decisions to change the name. On the contrary. Macedonia is good.

Since the internationally recognised name of the country is F.Y.R.O.M the information in the location file should be changed to that.

+1 for FYROM. We must keep official location names.

I agree also. 'FYROM' should be used.

+1 FYROM is much better choice at that time.

Bullcrap. No Cambridge no Yale... Here are my passports, where are yours?
Republic of Macedonia

We all have to be reasonable and play by the rules. Trying to stand up yourself by showing passports and beeing aggresive wont make anyone change his mind. Just the opposite. Also it isnt polite for the maintainers of this module to see cases like these. I believe we all just have to agree that we must follow the laws and rules for such a sensitive case. Both users and maintainers of this module. Nevron just made a reasonable point.
Cheers

My passports show the official name of my country. I am not aggressive at all. YOU are aggressive. Cut the discussion about other people's countries. YOU have no right to christen others. My right is to breath. My right is to call myself as I wish. My right is to call my country as I wish.

No Macedonian passports are canceled because of the name. This is propaganda and lies. Official name of my country is Macedonia, the language Macedonian. Case closed.

I am Macedonian from Greece. All the historical facts proves that. You dont have any historical facts just copy ours and sell them as yours. Having the name of Macedonia on your passports isnt a facts of your ancestry. Is a fact of stealling and if you were a company you would be sued for stealling of copywrite material. You are a mix of ethnicities with no relation with Greece therefore Macedonia. Not talking for Alexander the Great. You think he was talking Slav? Angient Slav or whatever?
This is hillarius. This is something they sell you to justice your existance as a country with no history at all.
I am free breathing Greek Macedonian. Dont still my history and my ancestry. Try to get along on your own and create things dont copy them.

Ridiculous claims. You've never been to the border, but you know. I come to Greece with my passport every year. Give me links of your passports. You cannot be Hellenoi, Graekoi, Romaoi and Makedonoi at the same time. Seems pretty confusing identity, isn't it? BTW, your passport says Hellenic Republic. You might want to change the name of your country to Hellenic and Macedonian Republic, but, well, it will still be different than Republic of Macedonia.
Case closed. Keep your ancestry just follow common law - use the official name for my country. Republic of Macedonia and language Macedonian.
(first you claim some court decisions without references, then you claim this and that, again, without references. my reference is simple - my passport)

Because the location module takes the list of names from the core country_get_list() function (defined in includes/locale.inc), this is a Drupal core issue.

I should note that the ISO standard uses "The Former Yugoslavic Republic of". See http://www.iso.org/iso/country_names_and_code_elements

I think the resolution to this should simply be a question of: Should we go with (1) what the country itself wants to be called or (2) what the international authorities (if the UN can be labeled as such) have agreed to call the country or (3) what is used by ISO-3166?

My suggestion is that we avoid debating over any details about history, ethnicity, nationality or anything like that. That discussion might be more appropriate elsewhere, perhaps at the venues where the above-mentioned naming standards are agreed to. Over here, I would urge us to focus on what is correct purely from a technical and standards-based perspective.

Although the former comment mentions the UN, the UN and the ISO are not the same, however the United Nations uses http://www.un.org/en/members/index.shtml#t "The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" in the Member State list. Also see the header of http://www.un.org.mk/

The file in question, in D8 is includes/standard.inc. The doxygen says * Get an array of all country code => country name pairs as laid out in ISO 3166-1 alpha-2. There is no political question, the standard list is at http://www.iso.org/iso/country_names_and_code_elements and calls it MACEDONIA, THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF. That's what this file should return. Someone should countercheck the whole file. MD, PS, TW and VE is wrong too. There might be more. All comma separated values?

This is a straight dump of the list, it includes changes like:

-    'VG' => $t('British Virgin Islands'),
+    'VG' => $t('Virgin Islands, British'),

and

-    'VN' => $t('Vietnam'),
+    'VN' => $t('Viet Nam'),

If desired, I can reroll it without changes like that, but I thought that this would be a good start.

Didn't account for apostrophes in strings. Also fixing capitalization.

Looks great to me. Ship it!

Quick reroll:

+++ b/core/includes/standard.incundefined
@@ -162,16 +162,16 @@ function standard_country_list() {
-    'MF' => $t('Saint Martin (French part)'),
+    'MF' => $t('Saint Martin (French Part)'),

This is an unnecessary change

+++ b/core/includes/standard.incundefined
@@ -231,9 +231,11 @@ function standard_country_list() {
+    'SX' => $t('Sint Maarten (Dutch Part)'),

So I lowercased this to "Dutch part".

Leaving at RTBC.

Whoops, dreditor bounced it back because I used it to show my changes :)

I would hold this , just a little bit. Despite yes that's the standard I would like to talk a bit here, you know I would've thought the country is called British Virgin Islands not Virgin Islands, British.

There's already an issue open for this: #1068840: core/includes/standard.inc contains inaccurate country data

The other issue appears to be a bit held up, like for over a year now.

For D7, we have had been granted string freeze exception for the new strings. The Drupal 7 minimal patch simply adds the new country strings, so it is very painful that it is being held up.

The issues holding this up more complete patches:

Possible issue with sorting due to the change:

-    'AX' => $t('Aland Islands'),
+    'AX' => $t('Åland Islands'),

Without the addition of additional sorting mechanisms in core, this will result in the country being listed last in the list. In this regards, I personally do not think that this addition should be added. In the countries module, I have bypassed this issue using a custom array sort based on a simple character mapping. I'm not sure if Drupal 7 core should have a overly simplified transliteration function built in, but huge "yes please" for Drupal 8. I know of custom implementations in at least 10 modules.

Possible data loss due to dropping AN

-    'AN' => $t('Netherlands Antilles'),

We already of 1 of the 3 new countries added due to the constitutional changes here, so IMHO, leave this in to bypass arguments, and in Drupal 8, drop this country and document a policy that during major upgrades Drupal core will drop countries that have been deleted from the ISO standard. Since this is a 1 country to 3 country change it is physically impossible to do an update script for this! Or maybe a best fit, pick the most populous country and assign all AN codes to this.

This short summary excludes a lot of related noise that is not directly related to the primary focus of the thread. :(

Note 1: The ISO and UN are related. From the ISO FAQ

New names and codes are added when the United Nations publish new names in either their Terminology Bulletin Country Names or in the Country and Region Codes for Statistical Use maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division. There is no other way of having new country names included in ISO 3166-1.

See http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166-faqs/iso_3166_faqs_general...

Note 2: If you do not want to hack core, use hook_countries_alter() [or the countries module] and you can happy bypass all of the related noise over this. The other thread has a complete list of the changes required to make this up to date with the ISO standard.

Yes man chill, its not bad to be a Slav, right?
Just gathered after 2300 years and resurrected an ancient nation, come on

-- Macedonian language?get real my friend -- go educate yourself
its ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑ and its written in Greek, u cant even pronounce your country's name correctly, you dont know what this greek word means

We go for the standards offcourse , this is information technology not the balkan news,

MAKEDONIA IS GREEK
In greece the place is makedonia in greek μακεδονία.
There is no language Makedonian.
In Μακεδονία the language is greek.

Feel free to discuss on the other issue mentioned in #28.

As TR said in #28: There is already an issue for this: #1068840: core/includes/standard.inc contains inaccurate country data. Can you follow that and check if the proposed changes there would be correct? (I am not sure, but as per the issue priority guidelines I'd say that (too) wouldn't qualify as critical.)

#1068840: core/includes/standard.inc contains inaccurate country data was closed, and discussion of incorrect country names was dismissed.

I understand that the country strings are long-frozen, but can we update the documentation at least?
The list does not match ISO 3166-1 alpha-2.

This issue has been closed for 4 years - please open another issue for your bug report.

But be aware that new issues need to be fixed in D8 first, so if you want to open a D7 issue make sure first that D8 doesn't have the same problem.

#2688383: iso.inc claims to match ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, does not