Czechia

Martin J. Dürst duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp
Tue Sep 27 05:31:29 CEST 2016


Doug's proposal, like usual, look like the right thing to do for me.

Regards,   Martin.

On 2016/09/27 02:47, Doug Ewell wrote:

> Despite the word "initially" in the first passage and the restriction to
> language subtags and ISO 639 in the second, it seems reasonable and
> consistent to adopt the new official name "Czechia" as the primary
> Description field for region subtag 'CZ'. However, given the great
> frequency of continued use of the name "Czech Republic" in
> English-language contexts, it also seems reasonable to retain the
> existing Description field in a secondary position. We previously did
> this in 2014 when the official name for region 'CV' was changed from
> "Cape Verde" to "Cabo Verde".


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