[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 | Keywords: country codes
Focuses: multisite |
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Currently, WordPress does not support country codes for any Middle East
countries such as Qatar, UAE, or Saudi Arabia.
They are all lumped into one as "ar." There is no ar-QA, ar-AE, etc.
https://wpcentral.io/internationalization/
This may not be an issue for a simple blog site but WordPress is
increasingly being used for commercial applications and ecommerce sites
now days.
I do realize that current WordPress internationalization scheme is based
on language, not based on country.
This poses a serious inconvenience and added development cost for a
business application that wishes to serve contents and services based on
country, not language.
Let me illustrate one example. Nigeria, the largest country in Africa (in
terms of population) does not have its own country code. So based on
WordPress scheme of things, Nigeria has to be lumped with one of the six
English codes WordPress provides since Nigeria's official language is
English.
If "en" is chosen, Nigeria is then has to be grouped with many other
countries that use English as their official language. What does Nigeria
have in common with Tonga?
I am not making this proposal for our current needs. We have already
implemented our custom router scheme to address this issue. But coming up
with a solution wasn't easy. It certainly wasn't cheap.
I am pointing this out for other businesses and startups that will run
into this issue in the future.
Regards,
Matthew S. Park
General Counsel & CTO
MM Global Services, Inc.
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