Wrong french translation

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Wrong french translation #845

Open aauugguussttiinn opened 7 months ago

aauugguussttiinn commented 7 months ago

Hello,

I'd like to suggest a change in the french translations.

countries/lib/countries/cache/locales/fr.json sets up the following :

"FR":"France"

In my opinion, it should be like this:

"FR":"France Métropolitaine"

In fact "France" refers to the French territory in Europe + Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyane française, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, La Réunion. So there should be either "France Métropolitaine" + these OR "France" only. Otherwise, some may be offended to read that Guadeloupe and others are considered apart from France.

Let me know if anything is not clear as english is not my mother tongue :)

pmor commented 7 months ago

Hi,

Thanks for raising the issue. This one is a bit tricky:

According to ISO (https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:FR), the "FR" code applies to all of the French Republic, and states that Metropolitan France is a part of "FR", as are all the overseas regions
The overseas regions have subdivision codes (ISO 3166-2 codes), such as "FR-971" for Guadeloupe
But, at the same time, all the overseas regions have "country codes" (ISO 3166-1), such as "GP" for Guadeloupe. (See https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_d%27outre-mer)
There was a code for Metropolitan France ("FX"), but it has been merged into "FR" in 1997. See the ISO page, and also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-3 (Entry "FXFR")

I'll have to think about this one

arnaudlevy commented 1 month ago

2 points about that:

"France Métropolitaine" is now "France hexagonale" or "Hexagone" (https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/l-abandon-du-mot-metropole-ou-la-remise-en-question-d-une-forme-de-neo-colonisation-1399730.html)
If FR becomes a part of France, which code should we use for France as a whole?

I think it should remain "FR":"France".

aauugguussttiinn commented 4 weeks ago

Hi @arnaudlevy ,

Good point on "France Métropolitaine" being now "France hexagonale" or "Hexagone", I missed it out. Your second point is relevant too and I have no solution to provide unfortunately. I just thought that if there was a distinction between "France hexagonale" and overseas territories, that may mean there is currently no way to refer to France as whole. That is what I understand from the wikipedia page of the ISO 3166-1 norm but it is ambiguous : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1