Handling obsolete, historic codes like ISO 3166-1:AN about normalize_country

[sshaw]

Good questions.

I would ask is the library's purpose to maintain standards or to simply normalize? Certainly normalizing does require us to "maintain standards", e.g., when a name or code is added, but if something was obsoleted, what is the downside to keeping it in?

To ask a different way: do we normalize and validate or just normalize?

I would think if validation was necessary you'd use one of these to check on it before passing it to NormalizeCountry().

Thoughts?

[cschug]

That's a valid point of view.

Nevertheless most current systems won't expand the sequence of "\U0001F1E6" (REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTER A) and "\U0001F1F3" (REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTER N) into a flag anymore, which renders the emoji pretty useless and might lead to unexpected results (it's basically an invalid Unicode region code).

[sshaw]

Nevertheless most current systems won't expand the sequence of "\U0001F1E6"...

Thanks for the info. Can you provide an example of where this is not working?