Well it is not a bad thing, USA does not own 'America' and only part of it.
73
vk4tux
On 17/5/23 19:09, Uwe, DG2YCB via wsjt-devel wrote:
Hi all,
Some users complain that "U.S.A." is displayed as "U.S.A. of America".
The reason for this is that the maintainers of the CTY.DAT file have
suddenly changed the name from "United States" to "United States of
America". But since all programs (WSJT-X, JTDX, wsjt-x_improved,
jtdx_improved, I think also MSHV) have a built-in algorithm to
abbreviate/replace "United States" by "U.S.A.", this now results in
"U.S.A. of America".
This, by the way, is a good example of someone who makes a small
change with good intentions but doesn't think about the side effects
it can cause.
The undesirable side effect only affects users who have downloaded an
updated cty.dat file themselves, because the cty.dat file that comes
with WSJT-X or wsjt-x_improved still uses "United States" as the name
in its cty.dat file.
However, the good news is: You can change it very easily yourself.
Either delete any cty.dat file in your log directory, or edit this
file and change "United States of America" to "United States".
I will inform the maintainers of the cty.dat file about this annoying
side effect and hope that they understand that it is better to use the
name "United States" again.
73 de Uwe, DG2YCB
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