Discussion

[samayo]

Hello, this is to discuss about new major change to the repo.

I am trying to remove most countries not recognized by UN. Currently, there are 248 countries in this repo, but the UN recognizes only 193 of them, so this will be a big change.

Other than that, I will fill all data for each country (so, no null or empty values)

All data will be also automated (to be updated each week whenever something changes in the source like wikipedia)

Let me know if you like to keep this repo as per the UN recognized countries only

[samayo]

@kennarddh

I think it's better to use 7 (007) as the others seem to be extensions

https://countrycode.org/russia

[kennarddh]

@kennarddh

I think it's better to use 7 (007) as the others seem to be extensions

https://countrycode.org/russia

Kazakhstan Also uses 7

And also this

[samayo]

Yes the two first countries are not officially recognised.

Let's use 7 for Russia until something changes

[kennarddh]

Yes the two first countries are not officially recognised.

Let's use 7 for Russia until something changes

And for this?

[samayo]

1242

The Bahamas is an independent country but uses the US calling code +1 and extension 242

So we should use the full calling code 242

[kennarddh]

1242

The Bahamas is an independent country but uses the US calling code +1 and extension 242

So we should use the full calling code 242

Its not consistent.

@samayo how to parse it if its not consistent?

[samayo]

In that case let's use the value as seen as in Wikipedia, just the way it is written

1 (variation 1, variation 2)

This is harder than I thought but this is the right thing to do imo

[samayo]

In that case let's use the value as seen as in Wikipedia, just the way it is written

1 (variation 1, variation 2)

This is harder than I thought but this is the right thing to do imo

Another question is should we include 00 or + or just nothing as the prefix, I say to include 001

So a JSON entry for US should be 001 For the Bahamas 001 (x, y,)

[kennarddh]

So use string instead of number @samayo?

And should we pad the x and y with 00?

And for russia should we leave it like x (y-z, c, d)

[samayo]

Good question, yes we should use string but we should not pad x, y with with 00 because then it would mean 00100424

[kennarddh]

Good question, yes we should use string but we should not pad x, y with with 00 because then it would mean 00100424

isn't it should be 00x if x is 1 char?

0x if x is 2 chars

and x if its more than 2 chars

And russia will be 007 (1–5, 8, 9)

[samayo]

closing as no update needed