Avoiding Problems by Avoiding Decisions

[Andras Mantia]

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On Thursday 13 May 2004 19:00, Maks Orlovich wrote:
> >  As a solution we can provide the country names as:
> > translated name (ISO name) and
> > ISO name (name in the langauge of the country)
> >
> > For example Hungary and Germany on an English desktop would be:
> > Hungary (Magyarorszag)
> > Germany (Deutschland)
>
> I thought of something like that for a bit, but this will break down
> for countries that have many languages that are widely used, or a
> strong minority population that speaks a different language. For
> example: what language would one use for Belgium?

Well, I'm also part of a minority, but here we have only one official 
language... In this case you should do on an English desktop:
English Name (Name in one language, name in other language)

For the second case, this is a non-issue as George pointed out.

Andras

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