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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 3.69 (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) 2010-2021 Sullivan Beck

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

perl v5.32.1                                       2021-12-03                        Locale::Codes::Changes(3pm)