Feature Request: multilanguage country names

[philpla]

Hello @all.

Just a short question: Are their any plans to add multilanguage support for country names?

thx
phil

[burt]

No plans. I can, however, see that it would be a useful addition.

If you can get it coded (as in done well and professionally) we can take a look at then getting it into the codebase.

[philpla]

@burt
thx for the fast reply.
coding of this - without change of core - looks impossible to me.
the DB table "countries" has a primary key countries_id. should be a combined key of country and language id. and this would change many core sql requests.

do you see an easier way of implementation?

[Kofod95]

If it's going into core, there is no need to avoid core-changes
I think you are welcome to present your solution, and given it is solid (professional), core-team can include it, as the functionality seems useful (that is my understanding of it, however)

//Daniel

[burt]

It would be *something like* how the products tables are split up. Where some parts are language specific (product name) and some parts are agnostic (product price, weight, gtin).

In the case of countries, the language specific bit would be the country name, the rest agnostic (ISO_2, ISO_3 code etc).

It's not a small and easy job, as it affects many areas of the code.

[philpla]

i will talk with my boss and ask if i get the time to code this.