Allow lookup of EU region using alternate code QUU #94
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What are you trying to accomplish?
Some systems use the alpha-three code
QUU
to refer to the European Union.This is, in a sense, valid, because ISO 3166 defines a private-use range that includes
QUU
.For compatibility with such legacy systems, this PR adds the ability to look up the EU/EUE region using code
QUU
.What approach did you choose and why?
In implementing this, I realized that we never actually implemented lookup by alternate code at the "country"/continent level; we only implemented it for "provinces". So, to achieve our desired lookup, we have to also allow lookup by alternate codes at the higher levels.
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