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NAME

       Locale::Codes::Changes - details changes to Locale::Codes

SYNOPSIS

       This describes the changes made to modules in the Locale-Codes distribution.  Major changes are marked
       with asterisks (*).  For the most part, all modules have remained backward compatible at every release,
       but occasionally a change is made which is backward incompatible. These are marked with an exclamation
       mark (!).

       As of 3.00, the codes are autogenerated from the standards. With each release, codes will be re-generated
       and tested to see if any code changed. Any time there are any changes to the codes, it will be flagged
       below with a change: NEW CODE(s).

       I intend to check for new codes four times a year (March, June, September, December). I will also try to
       respond to requests for a release due to changes made to the standards, so if a code changes that you
       use, feel free to contact me.  Based on my available time and the time until the next release is
       scheduled, I will try to do a release any time the standards change.

VERSION 3.77 (expected 2023-12-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
       Changed RELEASE_TESTING variable
            Now  use  a  release-specific  testing  variable  rather  than  RELEASE_TESTING.  See GitHub #17 for
            details.

VERSION 3.76 (2023-09-05 sbeck)

       Fixed problem in distro
            Accidentally created a distribution (3.75) that is broken.  GitHub #18

VERSION 3.75 (2023-09-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)

VERSION 3.74 (2023-06-07 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)

VERSION 3.73 (2023-03-06 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
       Fixed a problem with test failing on windows
            Reported in GitHub #15

VERSION 3.72 (2022-09-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)

VERSION 3.71 (2022-06-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)

VERSION 3.70 (2022-03-02 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)

VERSION 3.69 (2021-12-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)

VERSION 3.68 (2021-09-02 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
            NOTE: no code changes on 2021-06-01 so no release made at that time.

       Added code2names
            Also code2countrys, code2languages, etc.  This  allows  you  to  see  all  names  and  aliases  that
            correspond to a code.  My apologies for making 'countrys' to be the plural of 'country', but because
            these  modules  are  all  generated  from  a  template, I didn't want to put in an exception for the
            strange pluralization.

            Prompted by David Cantrell.

VERSION 3.67 (2021-03-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)

VERSION 3.66 (2020-12-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)

VERSION 3.65 (2020-09-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)

VERSION 3.64 (2020-06-02 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
       Fixed bug deleting retired codes
            The delete_code function failed if you tried to delete a retired code.  This is now  fixed.   GitHub
            #12

VERSION 3.63 (2020-03-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
            NOTE: no code changes on 2019-12-01 so no release made at that time.

       Fixed a retired code

VERSION 3.62 (2019-08-29 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
       Fixed tests
           Tests were not working correctly since the previous version.  This is now fixed.

       Fixed error messages
           Many of the error messages were inconsistent or completely wrong (due to cut-and-paste errors).  They
           have been fixed.

       Fixed some return codes
           The  name2code  and code2name functions returned 1 in the case of an error in some situations instead
           of undef (which was the documented value).

       Removed unnecessary dependencies
           A number of modules were included as test  dependencies  that  are  only  used  by  the  author  when
           preparing releases.  These have been removed as dependencies.  Petr Pisar on GitHub #11

VERSION 3.61 (2019-06-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
       Converted tests to use Test::Inter
           Now uses the same module to do tests as all my other modules.

VERSION 3.60 (2019-03-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)

VERSION 3.59 (2018-12-03 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
       Removed travis file from the tarball
           The  tarball  had a .travis.yml file in it that wasn't in the MANIFEST file.  Since the MANIFEST file
           is automatically generated by the perl mkmanifest tool, since it didn't see the .travis.yml  file,  I
           have excluded it from the tarball.  Reported by Mohammad S Anwar on GitHub (#10)

VERSION 3.58 (2018-09-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
       (*) Locale-Codes removed from core
           Locale-Codes will no longer be distributed in new versions of perl.

       Documentation fix
           Fixed an incorrect link reported by Mohammad S Anwar on GitHub (#9)

VERSION 3.57 (2018-06-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)

VERSION 3.56 (2018-03-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)

VERSION 3.55 (2017-11-17 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
       (*) Deprecated in core
           Because  correct  usage  of any of the Locale::Codes modules requires that they be kept up-to-date, I
           have long felt that it should not  be  distributed  as  a  core  module.   After  discussion  on  the
           perl5-porters  list,  it is agreed, and the deprecation process has been started.  Starting with perl
           5.28.0, Locale-Codes will be flagged as deprecated, and it will be removed in version 5.30.0 .

           Thanks to p5p-porters (especially Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsaker) for discussion and guidance.

       Changes from a github pull request applied
           A couple minor changes (updated .travis.yml to include newest versions of perl; and a couple  changes
           to pod_coverage.t) reported by lancew on GitHub.

       Got rid of Build.PL
           Simplified  things  by  only  supporting one of Makefile.PL/Build.PL (and the latter has been removed
           from perl core some time ago).  RT 123572

       Fixed INSTALLDIRS
           The behavior of installing core modules changed in 5.12 a bit, and Makefile.PL now reflects that.  RT
           123571

VERSION 3.54 (2017-09-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)

VERSION 3.53 (2017-07-25 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
       Fixed the default error condition in legacy modules.
           With the addition of the OO module, better error handling was added (and it was on by default).   The
           non-OO  (legacy)  modules did not report errors, so code that uses them, would now behave differently
           if invalid data were passed in.

           I have turned off error handling by default in the legacy modules.  The show_errors method was  added
           to each of the non-OO modules to report errors if desired.

           Reported by dmaestro on GitHub.

VERSION 3.52 (2017-06-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)

VERSION 3.51 (2017-04-10 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
       Tests no longer require (.) in INC
           As of perl 5.25.11, (.) is being removed from INC.  I had to adjust the tests accordingly.

VERSION 3.50 (2017-03-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
       (*) Rewrote as OO module
           The  core  module  (Locale::Codes)  is  now an OO module that can be used directly.  All of the other
           modules (Locale::Codes::TYPE) are still the older functional interfaces and remain unchanged.

       Added some constants
           Historically, the constant names used to identify the codesets have been named  inconsistently.   The
           original constants for codesets are:

              Type      Constants

              country   LOCALE_CODE_*
              currency  LOCALE_CURR_*
              language  LOCALE_LANG_*

              script    LOCALE_SCRIPT_*
              langfam   LOCALE_LANGFAM_*
              langvar   LOCALE_LANGVAR_*
              langext   LOCALE_LANGEXT_*

           For consistencies sake, I have added some new codes (which are otherwise identical to the irregularly
           named codes):

              country   LOCALE_COUNTRY_*
              currency  LOCALE_CURRENCY_*
              language  LOCALE_LANGUAGE_*

           Going forward, all constants will include the full name of the code type.

       Non-OO modules are now generated
           All  non-OO  modules  are  now  automatically  generated.  This will make it easier to keep them 100%
           consistent as well as making it easier to add new types of code sets.

           All of the documentation for them is also generated except for the  description  of  the  code  sets.
           That has been moved into the Locale::Codes::Types document.

       Fixed a bug where constants were not exported
           Some  of  the  constants  for some of the newer code sets were not exported properly.  This was fixed
           when I started generating the non-OO modules, but was reported (after  I  had  already  fixed  it  in
           development) as RT 119741 .

VERSION 3.42 (2016-11-30 sbeck)

       Added Czech republic aliases back in
           Common Czech republic aliases disappeared from the standards, so I added them back in.  Rob Emery

VERSION 3.41 (2016-11-18 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
           Jiri Bohac noted that they were needed so this was release a couple weeks earlier than planned.

VERSION 3.40 (2016-09-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)

VERSION 3.39 (2016-05-31 sbeck)

       Added UN codes back in
           The UN codes have been added back in as their own list of codes.  Jarkko Hietaniemi

       Added GENC codes
           The  GENC  codes  have  been  added.   These are the new US Government codes that replace the FIPS-10
           codes.  They are based on, but not identical to the ISO 3166 codes.

VERSION 3.38 (2016-03-02 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
       Tests reworked
           Improved test suite (and made some changes to Codes.pm) based on Devel::Cover.  Test  suite  now  has
           100% coverage.

VERSION 3.37 (2015-12-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)

VERSION 3.36 (2015-09-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
       (!) Removed alias_code function
           The alias_code function was preserved for backward compatibility, but has been deprecated since 3.20.
           It has been removed.

VERSION 3.35 (2015-06-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
       Documentation improvements
           Many changes to the formatting in the documentation to improve it.  Suggested by Pete Houston.

VERSION 3.34 (2015-03-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)

VERSION 3.33 (2014-12-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
       Filled out LOCALE_LANG_TERM codeset
           The  terminologic  language  codes  only included codes from languages where the ISO specified both a
           bibliographic code and a terminologic code.  If both are not specified, the better  solution  was  to
           use the code for both code sets.  Prompted by a suggestion by Jarkko Hietaniemi.

       Moved repository to GitHub
           Suggested by Gabor Szabo.

VERSION 3.32 (2014-09-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)

VERSION 3.31 (2014-06-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
       Bug fixes
           Fixed  a  bug  in  the scripts used to extract data from spreadsheets that prevented the SHP currency
           code from being found.  RT 94229

VERSION 3.30 (2014-03-04 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
       alias_code remove date set
           The alias_code function exists for backward compatibility.  It has been deprecated since version 3.20
           when it was replaced by rename_country_code.  The alias_code function will be removed in the December
           2014 release.

       Bug fixes
           Fixed a problem that was preventing rename_* functions to not work.  RT 92680.

VERSION 3.29 (2014-01-27 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
       ISO 3166 country codes improved
           ISO 3166 is now browsable online (previously, only the alpha-2  codes  were)  and  it  contains  more
           accurate  information  than  the  previous  sources, so I've switched to using the full standard.  In
           response to RT 92303 which reported some codes being 'retired' that should not have been.

       Bug fixes
           Fixed the pod test files so that pod tests won't get run at install time.  In response to RT 91167.

VERSION 3.28 (2013-12-02 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)

VERSION 3.27 (2013-09-03 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
       * FIPS-10 country codes removed
           As of June, the FIPS codes are not being published in their entirety.  Only changes to the codes  are
           published.   This  adds  a  huge layer of complexity to maintaining the set, which is not worth doing
           considering that the set is deprecated.  As such, the code set is no longer supported.

VERSION 3.26 (2013-06-03 sbeck)

       Documentation fixes
           Some of the examples were not correct.  RT 84589

           Some typos corrected.  RT 85692

VERSION 3.25 (2013-03-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)

VERSION 3.24 (2012-12-03 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
       Syria alias
           Syria added as an alias.  RT 82747

       FIPS-10 country codes deprecated
           The FIPS-10 document is being withdrawn.  It was deprecated in 2008, and is being  updated  now  only
           until  all  the  agencies that use it have switched to something else.  The current version no longer
           lists the long names for countries.  These long names (such as 'Republic  of  Albania'  for  Albania)
           only  appeared  in  the  old  FIPS-10  document  which  is no longer available, so they are no longer
           available in this module.

           I will continue to support the FIPS-10 codeset as long as it is available, but at that point, it will
           be withdrawn immediately.  If an official end-of-life date is announced,  I  will  include  a  notice
           here.  Otherwise, support for the codeset will be discontinued when the document is withdrawn.

           You are encouraged to no longer use the FIPS-10 codeset.

       Domain country codes now come from ISO 3166
           The  IANA  domain  codes  have  changed  slightly.   The IANA no longer publishes a list of countries
           associated with their codes.  Instead, they use the ISO 3166 codes and country names.  However,  they
           support  a few non-standard codes, so I will continue to maintain this codeset.  The domain codes are
           now lowercase to correspond to the ISO 3166 codes.

VERSION 3.23 (2012-09-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)

VERSION 3.22 (2012-06-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
       Updated perl version required
           Changed 'require 5.002' (which dated back to the version 2.xx Locale-Codes) to 'require 5.006'.  Some
           features used in Locale-Codes are not supported that far back.  Nicholas Clark

       Sorted deprecated codes
           The codes in the generated deprecated codes modules were not sorted making version diffs bigger  than
           they should be.  Nicholas Clark

VERSION 3.21 (2012-03-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)

VERSION 3.20 (2011-12-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
       Added limited support for deprecated codes
           The  code2XXX,  XXX2code,  all_XXX_codes,  and all_XXX_names functions now support retired codes.  RT
           71124

       Fixed capitalization
           The 'South Sudan' country was all caps.  RT 71024

       Pod tests off by default
           The pod tests will not run at install time.  RT 71122

       Codesets may be specified by name
           All codesets may be specified by a constant or by their name now.  Previously,  they  were  specified
           only by a constant.

       alias_code deprecated
           The   alias_code   function   exists   for   backward   compatibility.    It  has  been  replaced  by
           rename_country_code .  The alias_code function will be removed sometime after September, 2013 .

       Code cleanup
           All work is now done in the central module (Locale::Codes).  Previously, some was still done  in  the
           wrapper modules (Locale::Codes::*) but that is gone now.

       Added LangFam module
           Added Language Family codes (langfam) as defined in ISO 639-5.

VERSION 3.18 (2011-08-31 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
       No longer use CIA data
           The  CIA  world  added  non-standard  values,  so I no longer use it as a source of data.  Based on a
           report by Michiel Beijen.

VERSION 3.17 (2011-06-28 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
       Added new types of codes
           Added Language Extension codes (langext) and Language Variation codes (langvar)  as  defined  in  the
           IANA language registry.

       Added new codeset(s)
           Added language codes from ISO 639-5

           Added language/script codes from the IANA language subtag registry

       Bug fixes
           Fixed an uninitialized value warning.  RT 67438

           Fixed the return value for the all_XXX_codes and all_XXX_names functions.  RT 69100

       Reorganized code
           Reorganized  modules  to  move  Locale::MODULE  to  Locale::Codes::MODULE to allow for cleaner future
           additions.   The  original  four  modules   (Locale::Language,   Locale::Currency,   Locale::Country,
           Locale::Script)  will  continue to work, but all new sets of codes will be added in the Locale::Codes
           namespace.

VERSION 3.16 (2011-03-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)

VERSION 3.15 (2010-12-02 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
       Minor fixes
           Added version number to Makefile.PL/Build.PL requirement for POD testing modules.  RT 62247

           Changed 'use vars' to 'our'

VERSION 3.14 (2010-09-28 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
       Bug fixes
           Stripped out some HTML that got included with some codes.

VERSION 3.13 (2010-06-04 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)

VERSION 3.12 (2010-04-06 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
       Reorganized code
           Renamed test.pl to testfunc.pl to avoid causing an error when built as part of perl.

VERSION 3.11 (2010-03-01 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
       Added new codeset(s)
           Added the IANA domain names to Country

       Bug fixes
           Fixed a problem that produced warnings with perl 5.11.5.  Jerry D. Hedden

VERSION 3.10 (2010-02-18 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
       Reorganized code
           Moved support files into the Locale::Codes namespace.

           The work done in each of the Locale::XXX modules was virtually identical to each other.  It  has  all
           been moved to a central module and the Locale::XXX modules are now just wrappers.

       (!) Changed XXX_code2code behavior slightly
           In  previous  versions,  passing in the same code set for both code set arguments would automatically
           return undef. For example:

              country_code2code('bo',LOCALE_CODE_ALPHA_2,LOCALE_CODE_ALPHA_2);
                 => undef

           This doesn't seem like reasonable behavior, so it has been changed to allow the same code set:

              country_code2code('bo',LOCALE_CODE_ALPHA_2,LOCALE_CODE_ALPHA_2);
                 => 'bo'

           Note that if an invalid code is passed in, undef will still be returned:

              country_code2code('bol',LOCALE_CODE_ALPHA_2,LOCALE_CODE_ALPHA_2);
                 => undef

       Added many semi-private routines
           Previous versions had only two semi-private routines: rename_country and  alias_code  which  had  the
           ability  to  modify  the  internal  data  in  a  couple of very limited ways. It was requested (in an
           anonymous posting by someone named Steve and also by Steve Hay - unknown if they are the same  person
           or  two  different Steves) that better support for modifying internal data, so a full set of routines
           were added.

           The full set of routines includes:

              rename_country
              rename_language
              rename_currency
              rename_script

              add_country
              add_language
              add_currency
              add_script

              delete_country
              delete_language
              delete_currency
              delete_script

              add_country_alias
              add_language_alias
              add_currency_alias
              add_script_alias

              delete_country_alias
              delete_language_alias
              delete_currency_alias
              delete_script_alias

              rename_country_code
              rename_language_code
              rename_currency_code
              rename_script_code

              add_country_code_alias
              add_language_code_alias
              add_currency_code_alias
              add_script_code_alias

              delete_country_code_alias
              delete_language_code_alias
              delete_currency_code_alias
              delete_script_code_alias

       New aliases
           Added "UK" alias. Steve Hay

VERSION 3.01 (2010-02-15 sbeck)

       Fixed Makefile.PL and Build.PL
           They now install as core modules as they are supposed to.  Reported in RT 54526

VERSION 3.00 (2010-02-10 sbeck)

       NEW CODE(s)
       (*) New maintainer
           From 1997 to 2004, Locale::Codes was maintained by Neil Bowers. Unfortunately, no updates  were  made
           from  June 2004 to January 2010. During that time, a number of changes were made to the standards, so
           the data included was out-of-date.

           I contacted Neil to get his permission to assume maintenance of the module, and he kindly agreed.

       (*) (!) All codes are generated from standards
           All of the values returned by the various functions are now values directly from the standards.  This
           means that the values returned in the 2.xx series are not necessarily the same as the values returned
           here.

           As  an example, the ISO 3166 standard which lists country codes refers to the country associated with
           the code "bo" as "Bolivia, Plurinational State of", so that is what is returned. In the 2.xx  series,
           "Bolivia" was returned.  Also, the country names vary from one standard to another. So the code "bol"
           which  is maintained by the United Nations returns the name of the country as "Bolivia (Plurinational
           State of)". Some common aliases have been added, so you can still request a code  associated  with  a
           county name "Bolivia".

           Since  the  data  comes  from  the  standards,  some  "incorrect" values are no longer supported. For
           example, 2.07 treated "Zaire" as an alias for "Congo", but the country changed it's name, and "Zaire"
           is not in the standard, so it has been dropped in 3.00.

       Added new codeset(s)
           FIPS 10 country codes (requested in RT 1755)

           Alpha-3 and Term language codes (requested in RT 11730)

           Numeric currency codes (requested in RT 18797)

       (*) (!) Locale::Script changed
           In 2.xx, Locale::Script assigned scripts to country codes, which is NOT how it is done  currently  in
           the  standards.  It  appears  that an older version of ISO 15924 did this, but I haven't found an old
           version to confirm that, and in any case, that is not the case in the current standards.

           As a result, the Locale::Script module is completely incompatible with the 2.xx version with  respect
           to the types of codes it supports. None of the old codes will work.

       Added missing functions
           I've  added  in some functions which were "missing" previously (since there was only one set of codes
           supported, the code2code functions didn't apply):

              language_code2code
              currency_code2code

           so the interfaces for each type of codes are consistent.

       (!) Dropped support for _alias_code
           In Locale::Country, _alias_code was an allowed, but deprecated function which was  documented  to  be
           supported in the 2.xx series. I've removed it.

       (!) All functions return the standard value
           code2country  (and  other  equivalent functions) now returns the name of the country specified in the
           standard (if the different standards refer to the country by different variations in  the  name,  the
           results will differ based on the CODESET)

       (!) rename_country function altered
           The  rename_country function from 2.07 would guess the CODESET (unlike all other functions which used
           a default of LOCALE_CODE_ALPHA_2). The guess can cause problems since (with  the  addition  of  FIPS)
           codes  may  appear in different codesets for different countries. The behavior has been changed to be
           the same as other functions (default to LOCALE_CODE_ALPHA_2).

VERSION 2.07 (2004-06-10 neilb)

           Made $_  local  in  the  initialization  code  for  each  module  change  back-propagated  from  Perl
           distribution

           Removed  two  non  ISO-8859-1  characters  from  language  names  change  back-propagated  from  Perl
           distribution

           Added the following aliases, with a test case for each
              - Burma added to Myanmar
              - French Southern and Antarctic Lands to
                French Southern Territories patch from TJ Mather

           "Canadian Dollar" was misspelled as "Candian Dollar"
              - noted by Nick Cabatoff, patch from Michael Hennecke

           Changes to Locale::Country reflecting changes in ISO 3166
              - added Aland Islands (ax, ala, 248)
              - YUGOSLAVIA is now SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
                 YU => CS
                 YUG => SCG
                 891 => 891 (unchanged)
                 (YUGOSLAVIA retained as an alias)
              - EAST TIMOR changed to TIMOR-LESTE
                 (old name retained as an alias)
              - three letter code for Romania changed from ROM to ROU

           ZAIRE is now CONGO, THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE
               ZR  => CD
               ZAR => COD
               180 => 180 (unchanged)
               (ZAIRE retained as alias)

VERSION 2.06 (2002-07-15 neilb)

           The four modules which have data after __DATA__ weren't closing the  DATA  filehandle  after  reading
           from it, which they should. Bug and patch from Steve Hay.

VERSION 2.05 (2002-07-08 neilb)

           Added three letter codes for the countries that were missing them. Patch from TJ Mather.

           Documentation  bug: one of the examples used => where the lvalue was a constant, which isn't allowed,
           unless you put the () with the constant to force the right interpretation.  Pointed out by TJ  Mather
           and MYT.

           Updated the URL for the appendix in the CIA world factbook.  Patch from TJ Mather.

VERSION 2.04 (2002-05-23 neilb)

           Updated  according  to  changes  in ISO 3166-1 described in ISO 3166-1 newsletters V-4 and V-5, dated
           2002-05-20:
              - Kazakstan is now "Kazakhstan"
              - Macau is now "Macao" The old names are retained as aliases.

           The alpha-2 and alpha-3 codes for East Timor have changed:
              tp -> tl
              tmp -> tls the numeric code stays 626. If you want to support the old codes, you can use the semi-
           private function alias_code().

VERSION 2.03 (2002-03-24 neilb)

           Fixed a typo in the alias for the Vatican, reported (with patch) by Philip Newton.

           Added "Moldova" as an alias for "Moldova, Republic of"

           Updated Makefile.PL to include AUTHOR and ABSTRACT

VERSION 2.02 (2002-03-09 neilb)

           Added semi-private routine rename_country() to Locale::Country, based on a patch from Iain Chalmers.

           Added test rename.t for the above function.

           Renamed _alias_code to be alias_code. Have retained the old name for  backwards  compatibility.  Will
           remove it when the major version number next changes.

VERSION 2.01 (2002-02-18 neilb)

           Split the documentation for all modules into separate pod files.

           Made sure all =over were =over 4; some were other values.

           The code2code() methods had one more shift than was needed.

VERSION 2.00 (2002-02-17 neilb)

           Created  Locale::Script  which  provides  an interface to the ISO codes for identification of scripts
           (writing scripts, rather than perl style scripts). The codes are  defined  by  ISO  15924,  which  is
           currently  in final draft.  Thanks to Jarkko for pointing out this new standard.  All three code sets
           are supported, and a test-suite added.

           Added support for country name variants to Locale::Country, so that
              country2code('USA')
              country2code('United States')
              country2code('United States of America') will all return 'us'.  This had been in  the  LIMITATIONS
           section  since the first version.  Patch from TJ Mather with additional variants from me. Added test-
           cases for these.

           Added VERSION to Locale::Constants. Thanks to Jarkko for pointing that it was missing.

           Should really have bumped major version with previous release, since there was a change to the API.

VERSION 1.06 (2001-03-04 neilb)

           Added Locale::Constants, which defines three symbols for identifying which codeset is being used:

              LOCALE_CODE_ALPHA_2
              LOCALE_CODE_ALPHA_3
              LOCALE_CODE_NUMERIC

           Updated Locale::Country to support all three code sets defined by ISO 3166.  This  was  requested  by
           Keith  Wall.   I  haven't  added  multiple codeset support to the other modules yet - I'll wait until
           someone asks for them.

VERSION 1.05 (2001-02-13 neilb)

           Added Locale::Currency, contribution from Michael Hennecke.

           Added test suite for it (t/currency.t) and added test cases to t/all.t for the all_* functions.

VERSION 1.04 (2000-12-21 neilb)

           Fixed very minor typos from 1.03!

VERSION 1.03 (2000-12-?? neilb)

           Updated Locale::Country:
              - fixed spelling of a few countries
              - added link to a relevant page from CIA world factbook

           Updated Locale::Language:
              - fixed typo in the documentation (ISO 939 should be 639)

VERSION 1.02 (2000-05-04 neilb)

           Updated Locale::Country and Locale::Language to reflect changes in the relevant ISO standards.  These
           mainly  reflect languages which are new to the relevant standard, and changes in the spelling of some
           country names.

           Added official URLs for the standards to the SEE ALSO sections of the doc for each module.

           Thanks to Jarkko Hietaniemi for pointing me at the pages with latest versions of ISO 3166 and 639.

VERSION 1.00 (1998-03-09 neilb)

           Added Locale::Country::_alias_code() so that 'uk' can be added as the code for "United  Kingdom",  if
           you want it.  This was prompted by Ed Jordan.

           Added  a  new  test  suite  for  handling  this case, and extended the existing test-suite to include
           testing of the case where 'uk' hasn't been defined as a valid code.

VERSION 0.003 (1997-05-09 neilb)

           First public release to CPAN

SEE ALSO

       Locale::Codes

AUTHOR

       See Locale::Codes for full author history.

       Currently maintained by Sullivan Beck (sbeck@cpan.org).

COPYRIGHT

          Copyright (c) 2001-2010 Neil Bowers
          Copyright (c) 2010-2023 Sullivan Beck

       This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it  under  the  same  terms  as  Perl
       itself.

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