Localization: Country names

[vaclavstepan]

Describe the bug
When registration includes list of contry names, it uses English versions of their names.
For an event held in a different language this is unpleasant.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create a conference with a participant registration
2. In participant registration form, see the values in the Country drop down menu

Expected behavior
Country names should respect the event language.

[ThiefMaster]

Hm, tricky one. We get those country names from pycountry but AFAIK it only contains the English names.

The only solution I see there is generating a file with all the country names wrapped as translatable strings so they can get extracted for translation...

[vaclavstepan]

I see. In the documentation of pycountry, there is a part dedicated to translating - from the example it seems that the library can do it. Would that be usable? See Locales section at https://pypi.org/project/pycountry/

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[ThiefMaster]

Oh nice, hadn't noticed that. That should make things much easier for sure.

[pferreir]

I don't think pycountry is even needed. You have all that information already in babel. e.g.:

In [40]: from babel import Locale

In [41]: cs_CZ = Locale('cs', 'CZ')

In [42]: cs_CZ.languages['gsw']
Out[42]: 'němčina (Švýcarsko)'

In [43]: cs_CZ.languages['pt']
Out[43]: 'portugalština'

[ThiefMaster]

For the country name you probably want get_current_locale().territories.get(x) with a fallback to the untranslated name (e.g. for custom countries defined via CUSTOM_COUNTRIES or countries that no longer exist (e.g. SU = Soviet Union))

[tomasr8]

The babel Locale.territories also include things like continents and regions. The continents can be easily flitered out since they don't use the alpha-2 codes, but then there are things like EU - European Union and EZ - Eurozone (seems weird, didn't find a mention of this in iso3166). Should we keep it in the list?

[ThiefMaster]

You'd still get the list from pycountry.. babel would just be used to look up a translated name.. Something like this:

{code: locale.territories.get(code, name) for code, name in get_countries().items()}