Official vs Common Name about countrypicker.pcf HOT 4 CLOSED

@bwmodular you are right, I noticed that too regarding UK, the name seems odd to me.

The service used to fetch the countries is RestCountries v2 of the API (They are on v3 now but I never updated the control), i'm afraid of breaking changes to current users of the control.

If you check at the output for UK in API v2, "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" is the name that they give. I see that the 'native name' could be used but this would break for other countries.

On the other hand, if I look at the v3 output, they give the common name and the long name
I get this for UK

I think I will make the switch soon to v3 and put a disclaimer for existing users

Thanks for your feedback

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Thanks for the response David, much appreciated. I look forward to the v3 upgrade, whenever it happens.... :-)

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Hi @bwmodular
I finally found some time to upgrade the control to the latest version of the Rest Countries API

You"ll be happy to find a more decent rendering for the UK ;)

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Wonderful, thanks for doing this, and thanks for letting me know.

Best wishes,
Ben

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