Avoiding Problems by Avoiding Decisions

[George Staikos]

On May 13, 2004 13:02, Maks Orlovich wrote:
> On Thursday 13 May 2004 12:12 pm, George Staikos wrote:
> > On May 13, 2004 12:00, 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?
> >
> >   Locales have two parts.  Take English - en_GB, en_US, en_Canadian,eh?,
> > etc
>
> We're talking about the country list, no?

   Yes.  I'm saying that different countries can localize the country list 
differently if they like via translations.

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