[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #51873: Middle East countries all missing country codes

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#51873: Middle East countries all missing country codes
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 Reporter:  HackYaaaaa       |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General          |     Version:  5.6
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  country codes    |     Focuses:  multisite
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Comment (by HackYaaaaa):

 Replying to [comment:1 tobifjellner]:

 "Locales are sometimes a combination of a language code and a
 region/country. But not always." Yes, this arbitrary and inconsistent
 scheme to define "locales" is problematic.  A language doesn't always
 define a country (Does Canada use English or French?) and the same English
 language can be used by multiple countries in different continents.

 For the Chinese language, WordPress core has recognized and addressed this
 issue long time ago. Because Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan have
 different business models, political system, and regulations, each region
 has its own assigned language and country code.  And this WordPress scheme
 has met online business needs of these three regions quite well.
 Unfortunately, I cannot say the same about the whole African continent or
 the Middle East.

 It's not that dozens of countries that use English as their official
 language need a separate translation team.  They just need their own
 unique country code.

 This really isn't a request that needs technical expertise or resource but
 a geopolitical awareness that there are distinct countries in Africa,
 Middle East and in other parts of the globe.

 I just shared this info with a colleague from Nigeria and he found this to
 be quite hurtful.  I am sure others may even find this lack of awareness
 by WordPress quite offensive.

 > Hi,
 >
 > Our list of current locales depends mostly on what language teams we've
 got (or have had at some point in time). The full live list can be seen in
 https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/
 >
 > Locales are sometimes a combination of a language code and a
 region/country. But not always.
 >
 > If I understand you correctly, then you'd like WordPress core to offer
 the possibility to declare a manually entered locale in the HTML delivered
 to visitors and that this tag could be different than the locale setting,
 which defines which language package the site will use to create all
 pages.

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