#15813: STATES_NORMALIZED dict for India does not include all states
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Reporter: jsdalton | Owner: nobody
Type: Cleanup/optimization | Status: new
Milestone: 1.4 | Component: contrib.localflavor
Version: SVN | Severity: Normal
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: 0 |
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I got bit today by an inconsitency in the implementation of the
STATES_NORMALIZED dictionary for India as compared with the U.S. and
Canada. (These are the only three countries which offer this dictionary.
My assumption is that the purpose of this dictionary is to help normalize
user input to the correct two letter state abbreviation. For both the U.S.
and Canada, this dictionary maps every two-letter abbreviation to the
normalized version (e.g.. "bc" -> "BC"), every complete spelling to the
normalized version (e.g. "british columbia" -> "BC") and common
misspellings or abbreviations to the normalized version (e.g. "calif" ->
"CA"). Makes sense.
The STATES_NORMALIZED dict in India does not do this though. It *only*
maps a handful of abbreviations and misspellings, but does not
comprehensively map each two letter abbreviation and each state.
I implemented some logic that assumed it worked like the U.S. and Canada
and got a complaint from a user registering from Gujarat who could not do
so, because no mapping is included for it. Yikes!
I humbly propose we extend STATES_NORMALIZED for India with all two letter
abbreviations and spelled out state names. If there is a reason not to do
this, I'd like to hear it. Otherwise, my patch is attached.
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