Comment 11 for bug 44528

Quoting Mysha (<email address hidden>):
> 1 Ah, that seems like a new point of view. Let me see if I get this straight. Over time, some countries have received colloquial names in English. This is a completely arbitrary set, determined by historical events, personal tastes of news editors etc.
> Are you saying that other languages should have conformed themselves to the arbitrary set of English colloquial names and never should never have developed such where English didn't?

We are not talking about colloquial names. We are talking about an
international standard.

ISO-3166 standardizes country names in English (and French). I
therefore expect the translations to follow the spirit of the
standard: if a country's official name is the same the its short name
in English, it should be the same in all translations.

>
> 2 Not sure where to fix it, but the simplest solution would seem to be
> to create double entries for English for all countries, even if they
> sometimes have the same values. That way other languages can differ
> where necessary like English can.

Technically speaking, gettext makes it nearly impossible to achieve.
And non-technically speaking, that would defeat the standard.