GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 594426
Added new country, Republic of Kosova with its cities
Last modified: 2017-12-06 19:53:08 UTC
Created attachment 142649 [details] [review] Git file that has modified parts of Locations.xml.in Added new country of Republic of Kosova with it's cities: Prishtina Gjakova Mitrovica Prizren Ferizaj Peja Gjilan Republic of Kosova is new state, it declared independence two years ago and it was missing on my weather applet so I added it. It also depends on /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab there must be also this line added: RK +4266+02116 Europe/Prishtina
These sorts of international political disputes are no-win situations for GNOME (and its downstream distributors); one group will be angry if we claim that Kosovo is an independent nation, and one will be angry if we don't. So libgweather's solution is to disclaim responsibility and just blindly do whatever ISO-3166 says, which at the moment means that Kosovo does not get listed as a separate entity. I was about to mark this NOTABUG, but then found this in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_Kosovo: According to rules of procedure followed by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency based in Geneva, a new ISO 3166-1 code for Kosovo will only be issued once it appears in the United Nations Terminology Bulletin Country Names or in the UN Statistics Division's list of Country and Region Codes for Statistical Use. To appear in the terminology bulletin, it must either (a) be admitted into the United Nations, (b) join a UN Specialised Agency or (c) become a state party to the Statute of the International Court of Justice. Criteria (b) was met when Kosovo joined the International Monetary Fund and World Bank; a terminology bulletin has yet to be circulated. Kosovo joined the IMF on 2009-06-29. I have no clue how fast the UN and ISO move on these sorts of things. However, since it looks like this will be happening, I'll leave the bug open. (BTW, the assigned code is unlikely to be "RK"; they don't like to represent "generic" words like "Republic" in the codes; the only reason Serbia ended up with "RS" was because all the good "S*" codes were already taken.) <fips-code> should be "KV" according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FIPS_country_codes
(In reply to comment #1) > These sorts of international political disputes are no-win situations for GNOME > (and its downstream distributors); one group will be angry if we claim that > Kosovo is an independent nation, and one will be angry if we don't. So > libgweather's solution is to disclaim responsibility and just blindly do > whatever ISO-3166 says, which at the moment means that Kosovo does not get > listed as a separate entity. This means that we have to wait? > > I was about to mark this NOTABUG, but then found this in > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_Kosovo: > > According to rules of procedure followed by the ISO 3166 > Maintenance Agency based in Geneva, a new ISO 3166-1 code for > Kosovo will only be issued once it appears in the United Nations > Terminology Bulletin Country Names or in the UN Statistics > Division's list of Country and Region Codes for Statistical Use. > To appear in the terminology bulletin, it must either (a) be > admitted into the United Nations, (b) join a UN Specialised Agency > or (c) become a state party to the Statute of the International > Court of Justice. Criteria (b) was met when Kosovo joined the > International Monetary Fund and World Bank; a terminology bulletin > has yet to be circulated. > > Kosovo joined the IMF on 2009-06-29. I have no clue how fast the UN and ISO > move on these sorts of things. However, since it looks like this will be > happening, I'll leave the bug open. (BTW, the assigned code is unlikely to be > "RK"; they don't like to represent "generic" words like "Republic" in the > codes; the only reason Serbia ended up with "RS" was because all the good "S*" > codes were already taken.) As long as the bug is opened, is there any chance that this can get to next release? > > <fips-code> should be "KV" according to > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FIPS_country_codes I will be changing this by tomorrow. Thank you for your fast comment-response :D
There's a patch in bug 727186 to add the capital of Kosovo and its airport to the Locations.xml. The rest of the cities will get added through geocoding queries, so there shouldn't be a need to add them manually, unless they have an airport themselves. The ISO code ended up being XK. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 727186 ***