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Impressed to see 'England' become 'United Kingdom'. Not so impressed to see that 'Wales' wasn't similarly treated.
by billpg 15y ago
Impressed to see 'England' become 'United Kingdom'. Not so impressed to see that 'Wales' wasn't similarly treated.
- TomGullen 15y agoI imagine these are the sorts of things that can be tuned quite easily, define more synonyms for each country etc.
- ajanuary 15y ago"uk" doesn't, but "gb" does :/
- alexchamberlain 15y agoWales and UK work for me - I suspect it's been updated.
- tspiteri 15y agoYes, those work now. Northern Ireland hasn't been added yet though.
- jcampbell1 15y ago"zhong" becomes "china", but 中 and 中国 does not.
- ctdonath 15y agoYes, glad to see at least a fragment of multiple naming is recognized. Started entering Deutschland and it settled on Germany. Entering Ivory Coast gave Côte d'Ivoire. The same should happen for all countries where the country's name for itself differs from a popular version. Endless debate may follow this question: WHICH name should it use? If used in the USA, I'm expecting to settle on Germany and Ivory Coast for the above examples, but would be surprised if residents thereof didn't object. United States is obvious, but much of the world knows it as Les États-Unis (which was NOT recognized), and America is a very popular if unofficial/improper variant (which BTW drives some "hey, we're in America too!" Canadians batty). Methinks the final name used should be what citizens thereof call home, but understand it would confuse much of the general rabble.