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Re: [xml2rfc] <country> in v3

Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@levkowetz.com> Fri, 03 January 2020 20:36 UTC

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Follow-up:

On 2020-01-03 21:24, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:

>> 
>> I really hope it doesn't "want" an ISO code, since RFC7991 says nothing about
>> that. It's very convenient that they are available, though.
> 
> xml2rfc recognizes the ISO 3166 2-letter, 3-letter, official, and common names
> of countries.  In cases where a name or abbreviation in common use isn't
> recognized, I'm happy to add extra entries.  I've already done so for 'UK',
> and will do so for "P.R. China" in the next release.

Added in my code.

>> 
>> It takes some cheating to produce:
>> 
>> Dilbert Engineer
>> Pointy Haired Products LLC
>> 42 Deepinit Street
>> Mudgrad 7991
>> Elbonia
>> Email: dilbert@example.com
>> 
>>> Another issue here is that it has unintended consequences with respect
>>> to Taiwanese users, as they would have to use "Taiwan (Province of China)".
>> 
>> That's a serious problem. But they can simply omit <country>.

I cannot reproduce the problem above.  Using <country>Taiwan</country>
works fine when I test it with xml2rfc 2.37.0.

Regards,

	Henrik

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