[Pkg-isocodes-devel] Tagging "historical" entries in the PO files for ISO_3166 ( and?others? )

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Tobias Toedter (t.toedter at gmx.net):

> Upon further investigation, I found out that we use those historic entries 
> only for ISO 3166 and ISO 4217. All other files do not include historic 
> entries.
> 
> This leads me to the question: Do we need to provide those entries? If not, 
> maybe we should just discard them. And if we do, it seems to me that maybe 
> we're better off by separating them into another XML file, so that 
> translators can choose to concentrate first on the current entries -- and 
> only translate the obsolete entries if they have the manpower to do so.


Well, they are part of the standard(s) so I don't really like the idea
of putting them aside.

There are not that many of these and they, by definition, never
change. So I'd recommend keeping them in the same file.


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