Re: ITP: liblocale-us-perl -- Module for United States state identification

[Alastair McKinstry <alastair.mckinstry@sceal.ie>]

Hi,

A larger version of this idea exists in the iso-codes package, with  
the iso-code subdivision
codes for all countries, see /usr/share/xml/iso-codes/iso_3166-2.xml

For each US state it has the 2nd-level code , so US-MI is Michigan,  
for example.

Similar 2nd-level codes exist for each country, so FR-75 is the French  
Department of Paris,
IE-D is Dublin, Ireland, and GB-ESX is the English county of Essex.

The iso-codes package  provides translations for these lists.

Perhaps generalizing this module might be a good idea ?

Regards
Alastair

On 17 Nov 2007, at 18:51, Matt Brown wrote:

> On 11/17/07, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> > > This Perl module provides methods allowing United States' two-letter
> > > state identification parsing from state code to state name and vice
> > > versa.
> >
> > Is a package really needed for something this simple?
>
> It might be obvious to a US native, but it's hardly simple or obvious
> to those of us outside America.
>
> MI is a prime example, does it refer to Michigan, Missouri,
> Mississippi or Minesota? The first two letters match all four.
>
> If you come across this every day you probably know the answer, but I
> just had to look it up again (Michigan) despite being caught out by
> this just the other week!
>
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