Bug#1141886: localechooser: Turkey is inconsistently classified under Asia in regionmap

Charles Plessy <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:05:17 +0900

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Hello everybody,

greetings from Asia :)

Le Sun, Jul 12, 2026 at 09:52:30PM +0200, Ben Hutchings a Ã©crit :
> 
> I don't think it's possible to achieve a consistent and understandable
> rule that maps each country to exactly one continent.  It seems this
> might best be resolved by changing to a many-to-many mapping.

That is a nice solution for the long term.

In the short term, we could just refer to trusted external sources.  For
instance, the United Nations has a one-to-one mapping "for statistical
convenience".

https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/

Other UN organisations such as UNESCO have different mappings.  If a choice is
to be made, maybe it could be to take the one that is the easiest to parse and
follow for updates?

Have a nice day,

Charles