GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 156326
Wrong name of country
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Translation bug: "FYR Macedonia" should be "Macedonia" or "Republic of Macedonia" - this is the constitutional name of the country. All open source (most of GNOME, RedHat/Fedora, Mandrake, SuSE, KDE and from recently even Debian) projects recognize the country as Macedonia. Will appreciate if you change this in the next release. Thanks in advance.
This is a trivial fix. You can submit a patch against the file Locations.xml.in (not Locations.xml, if you can't find the file look in http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-applets/gweather/). I'm not even sure what FYR stands for, but I think it would be easiest to change it to Macedonia. This won't appear in GNOME 2.8.2 as it would break the string freeze, but it will appear in GNOME 2.10. Thanks.
Davyd, FYR stands for "Former Yugoslav Republic of". I belive it's the full name of the country according to UN (because probably Greece has a problem with it being simply "Macedonia"). But here, we don't use all the full names of a country anyway (i.e. "United States" instead of "United States of America", "United Kingdom" instead of "United Kindom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", etc.), there's no reason not to use simply "Macedonia" here. Ok, this is already RESOLVED, but just thought I'd add an explanation provided someone wants to dispute this later on, and comes to Bugzilla :)
Danilo, cool thanks for this explanation.