Bing's api returns "Laos" as the country name of Lao People's Democratic Republic so this gem cannot be able to search by 'Laos'.

Location: http://schemas.microsoft.com/search/local/ws/rest/v1

Hi,

I was interested in evolving this into containing the country state/provinces codes for ISO 3166-2. For example the ISO 3166-2:EC for Ecuador or ISO 3166-2:BR for Brazil.

Before I fork this, are there any comments or remarks or even guiding as to what pattern, format to follow?

Regards,

I had to add Kosovo and rename "Macedonia (the former Yugoslav Republic of)" to "North Macedonia". I fixed my issue by adding this:

class XXK < IsoCountryCodes::Code
  self.numeric = nil
  self.name    = %q{Kosovo}
  self.alpha2  = %q{XK}
  self.alpha3  = %q{XXK}
  self.iban    = 'XK'
  self.main_currency = 'EUR'
  self.continent = 'EU'
  self.calling = '+383'
end

IsoCountryCodes::Code::MKD.module_eval do
  self.name    = %q{North Macedonia}
end

Because I use the gem for Ruby on Rails I added the code to: config/initializers/adjust_iso_country_codes.rb.
Kosovo appears on the last place. Where can I add .sort_by to resort all the countries?

There are few countries that spec across multiple continents. I would expect for those countries to receive a list of continent codes as their continent, while the library sticks to only one of those.

See details in https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/List_of_transcontinental_countries.html

Examples of those are Russia, Egypt, Turkey.

Kosovo has recently become recognized as a country. It appears the wiki page you are scraping has not updated, and the timeline is uncertain on when that may happen. Would there be an objection to submitting a PR that injects Kosovo manually into the list? There appears to be a recommendation to use "XK" at https://geonames.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/xk-country-code-for-kosovo/ .

@alexrabarts thanks for your work on this. I'm using it in a production app!

Are you still maintaining this project? I'd be happy to step up to the plate and implement this myself if you're still around and merging pool requests.

I'm using the gem in a save callback on a model in conjunction with a geocoding service that is returning country codes. I convert the country code to the country name using iso_country_codes. It makes me nervous that the third party service could return a new or invalid country code and prevent the model from saving. So, I'm doing something like this:

user.country = begin; IsoCountryCodes.find(geo.country).name; rescue; geo.country; end;

It'd be handy if there was a configuration option to return whatever was passed to the find method if no country is found instead of raising an error.

IsoCountryCodes.search_by_name("USA") -> nothing
IsoCountryCodes.search_by_name("US") -> bunch of things, not US

IsoCountryCodes.search_by_name("United states") -> works! :)

Maybe exactly as designed. Would you like a PR?

The name's for the states of Saint Lucia are all nil. See below.
[pry(main)> c.data["name"]
=> "Saint Lucia"
[pry(main)> c.states.map { |state| state.last["name"] }
=> [nil, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil]

["01",
#<struct ISO3166::Subdivision
name=nil,
code=nil,
unofficial_names=nil,
geo=nil,
translations=
{"ar"=>"حي أنس لا راي",
"bn"=>"আন্স লা রায়ে কোয়ার্টার",
"da"=>"Anse la Raye Quarter",
"de"=>"Anse-la-Raye",
"el"=>"Άνς λα Ράιγ",
"en"=>"Anse la Raye",
"es"=>"Anse La Raye",
"eu"=>"Anse la Raye auzoa",
"fa"=>"بخش آنسه لا ریه",
"fi"=>"Anse-la-Raye",
"fr"=>"District d’Anse-la-Raye",
"gu"=>"એન્સે લા રેય ક્વાર્ટર",
"hi"=>"एंस ला राए क्वार्टर",
"id"=>"Anse la Raye Quarter",
"it"=>"quartiere di Anse-la-Raye",
"ja"=>"アンス・ラ・レイ地区",
"kn"=>"ಆನ್ಸೆ ಲಾ ರೇಯ್ ಕ್ವಾರ್ಟರ್",
"ko"=>"앙스라레 구",
"lt"=>"Ans Lavua",
"mr"=>"अं. ला राय क्वार्टर",
"ms"=>"Anse la Raye Quarter",
"nb"=>"Anse la Raye Quarter",
"nl"=>"Anse-la-Raye",
"pl"=>"Anse la Raye",
"pt"=>"Anse-La-Raye",
"ru"=>"Анс-Лавуа",
"si"=>"අන්සේ ලා රයේ කාර්ටර්",
"sv"=>"Anse la Raye Quarter",
"ta"=>"அன்ஸே லா ரே குஆர்டெர்",
"te"=>"ఆన్స్ లా రే",
"th"=>"แอนซี่ ลา เรย์ ควอเตอร์",
"tr"=>"Anse la Raye (şehir)",
"ur"=>"انسے لا رائے کوارٹر",
"vi"=>"Anse la Raye",
"zh"=>"昂斯拉雷區"},
comments=nil>]

Shouldn't the Bahamas calling code be +1242 instead of +242 ?
I think it's the same with all the american islands (american samoa +684, ...)

Good day, I'm using your library and after release of 0.7.2 version
IsoCountryCodes.for_select returns

 ["Virgin Islands (U.S.)", "VI"],
 ["Wallis and Futuna", "WF"],
 ["Western Sahara", "EH"],
 ["Yemen", "YE"],
 ["Zambia", "ZM"],
 ["Zimbabwe", "ZW"],
 [nil, nil]]

nil values at the end.

Reverted back to 0.7.1 and this problem has gone. Can someone else prove it? Is it a valid output?

Hi @alexrabarts ,
when you search by name:
IsoCountryCodes.search_by_name('Cocos (Keeling) Islands')[0].alpha2
exception is thrown
IsoCountryCodes::UnknownCodeError: No ISO 3166-1 codes could be found searching with name 'Cocos (Keeling) Islands'.
Name is defined in this line
https://github.com/alexrabarts/iso_country_codes/blob/master/lib/iso_country_codes/iso_3166_1.rb#L259

Regards, Karlo.

The ISO3166 data is copyright by ISO; you can purchase it here:
http://www.iso.org/iso/publications_and_e-products/databases.htm#PUB100050.

The 2-character codes and mapping to French and English names are free for internal and non-commercial use, but the numeric codes (database IDs as they call them) are only available to those who have purchased them.

You probably need to modify your copyright message to reflect that.

Would it be possible to change iso_4217.rb and iso_3166_1.rb such that the values are read in from a yml file? Doing that and allowing any key for the property names (using method_missing or defining methods based on the attribute keys that are read in from the yaml file - instead of hard-coded method names in the ruby class) will allow the following:

The yml file could then be "externalized" to the consumer (you will need to provide a way for the gem consumer to specify a custom yml file) - ie they can take the default, add new attributes (for eg, in my case, I would like a "flag_sprite_class", "phone_code", "enabled"). Extending the gem will be super-easy in this case! What do you think?

Would it be possible to have this work? What's the policy on alternative spellings for country names? Stripe currently gives the old name and crashes the search.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:MO

pry(main)> IsoCountryCodes.search_by_name('Macao')
=> [#<IsoCountryCodes::Code::MAC:0x007ffb84191360>]

pry(main)> IsoCountryCodes.search_by_name('Macau')
IsoCountryCodes::UnknownCodeError: No ISO 3166-1 codes could be found searching with name 'Macau'.
from /Users/nruth/.rbenv/versions/2.2.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/iso_country_codes-0.6.1/lib/iso_country_codes/iso_country_codes.rb:14:in `block in singleton class'

Hi! I would make sense to support the ISO 3166-2 for region support in this gem?
I was looking for something that can group the ISO codes for Countries, Regions and Currencies and this seems to be a good match.

I have a tool that returning country names to me, which I think pass to iso_country_codes. In one case, it returned "Republic of Korea", and iso_country_codes couldn't find it and returned an error. This got me digging, and I found this is because the "Republic of" part of the name is parenthetical in https://github.com/alexrabarts/iso_country_codes/blob/master/lib/iso_country_codes/iso_3166_1.rb

I'm not claiming this is an error or bug, because when it comes to naming things, its never easy. It did lead me look at other records in the file, and I noticed that sometimes parenthesis are used for parts of the country name, other times its a comma that separates the parts. I'm wondering if there is a reason for the difference, or if its an inconsistency? If its an inconsistency, I wouldn't mind opening a PR for it.

Also, for these cases, would it be feasible for iso_country_codes to do a comparison between the input, and a version of the country name where the parenthesis were removed and order flipped? Again, I wouldn't be opposed to doing the leg work on the PR, but since I don't know the library very well, I wanted to find out if there may be other technical or non-technical reasons that this would be a bad idea before I started trying to code it up.

IsoCountryCodes.search_by_name('') returns not empty list as expected =(

You have the wrong currency code for South Korea.. it should be KRW, not KPW (that is North Korean Won) :)

While Cyprus is closest to Asia Minor, it still belongs to Europe. Cyprus is also a member of the European union, so it's continent should be Europe.
https://github.com/alexrabarts/iso_country_codes/blob/master/lib/iso_country_codes/continent.rb#L162

Taiwan is not a country. You should remove it from your readme file

What I did:

• gem install 'iso_country_codes
• irb
• require 'iso_country_codes
• IsoCountryCodes.search_by_name('Belgie')

What I expected:
BE

What I got:

❯ irb
2.4.0 :001 > require 'iso_country_codes'
 => true
2.4.0 :002 > IsoCountryCodes.search_by_name('Belgie')
NoMethodError: undefined method `to_set' for ["AFGHANISTAN"]:Array
Did you mean?  to_s
	from /X/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/iso_country_codes-0.7.8/lib/iso_country_codes/iso_country_codes.rb:94:in `word_set'
	from /X/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/iso_country_codes-0.7.8/lib/iso_country_codes/iso_country_codes.rb:44:in `block in search_by_name'
	from /X/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/iso_country_codes-0.7.8/lib/iso_country_codes/iso_country_codes.rb:44:in `select'
	from /X/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.0/gems/iso_country_codes-0.7.8/lib/iso_country_codes/iso_country_codes.rb:44:in `search_by_name'
	from (irb):2
	from /X/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.4.0/bin/irb:11:in `<main>'