Shorten GB display name

[wilsonpage]

The recently changed GB display name is:

• A. Too long to fit in most UIs
• B. An unfamiliar way to refer to UK. I live in UK and have never heard it called that.

[izolate]

@fannarsh can we merge this? The full name is really unfamiliar for most people in the United Kingdom.

[haochang]

Just found a way to do it without this PR

overwrite([
      {
        code: 'GB',
        name: 'United Kingdom'
      }
    ])

[daniel-unionrealtime]

Just found a way to do it without this PR

overwrite([
      {
        code: 'GB',
        name: 'United Kingdom'
      }
    ])

Thank you for this, but I do agree with @wilsonpage here. Without this PR might have taken me longer to find the cause of why:

console.log(getCode('United Kingdom')); // undefined

[fannarsh]

Hi all,

A. Too long to fit in most UIs.

Yes, it is quite long

B. An unfamiliar way to refer to UK. I live in UK and have never heard it called that.

But this is what it is named according to the United Nations and the ISO 3166-1-alpha-2 standard.

And the sole purpose of this library is to lookup the ISO 3166-1-alpha-2 standard. You are always welcome to use the overwrite() method to change the names if you want to display another name then the one which is standardised.