From: Mischa POSLAWSKY <perl@shiar.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 21:21:48 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: countries: abbreviate West and East names
X-Git-Tag: v1.10~65
X-Git-Url: http://git.shiar.nl/sheet.git/commitdiff_plain/856d772d7f54045dbd78ef73f1d22c1bfe78e165

countries: abbreviate West and East names

Western Sahara and East Timor to W-Sah and E-Tim.
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diff --git a/tools/mkcountries-geonames b/tools/mkcountries-geonames
index 209653e..56f85c4 100755
--- a/tools/mkcountries-geonames
+++ b/tools/mkcountries-geonames
@@ -90,11 +90,13 @@ for (values %cc) {
 		s/ and / & /g and s/(?<=.)[a-z ]+//g;
 		s/ of / /g;
 		s/\bsa?int /st /gi;
-		s/United /Un. /gi;
+		s/Un\Kited /. /gi;
 		s/South(?:ern)? /S-/g;
 		s/North(?:ern)? /N-/g;
+		s/West(?:ern)? /W-/g;
+		s/East(?:ern)? /E-/g;
 		s/New /n./g;
-		s/(\S)(\S+)-/$1-/g;  # strip most chars preceding dash
+		s/(\w)(\w+)-/$1-/g;  # strip most chars preceding dash
 		s/(\S{4}[b-df-hj-np-tv-xz])((?<!Austr)(?!land)\w{2,})/$1./g;  # abbreviate (at consonant)
 		$_;
 	};