Re: grouping countrychooser list by region
Quoting Joey Hess (joeyh@debian.org):
> I think it would help to look at how KDE handles some of these edge
> cases.
After this we had an interesting discussion on IRC....
No real conclusion : though some "regions" are nearly obvious, we end
up on some difficult cases we sorting out countries.
(The short list for regions was "America, North and Central",
"America, South", "Europe", "Caribbean", "Asia", "Africa"....and maybe
"Pacific Ocean", "Indian Ocean", "Australia/New-Zealand" and
"Other".....Americas was a problem with different perception from
different people.....)
Finally, Steve Langasek brought up an intersting suggestion : instead
of sorting countries by regions, why not first show the user with the
countries his/her language is used, then show the whole list (either
after, or as a separate choice).
For instance, users choosing "French" in languagechooser are presented
with:
Belgium
France
Switzerland
Canada
...lots of African countries...
...
Other
where Other shows up the full list (or all other countries listed
alphabetically)
This would require translators to maintain a list of "preferred"
countries for their own languages, however.
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