On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 09:59:30PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> [2004-05-03 01:32]: > > > Well, I have no other idea for sorting else than alphabetically on > > > language code. This was indeed discussed when I raised this bug (at > > What ever happened to the idea of sorting by ISO codes, which are > > probably easier to look for than English translations of one's native > > language? > Uh, no, sorting by ISO code is really not intuitive when the ISO code > itself is not displayed. Sorting by ISO code but displaying country > names makes it really hard for me to choose the right country. I live > in Great Britain (GB). So obviously I press "G"... however, "G" leads > me to Germany, and between Germany and Great Britain, there are lots > of other names because Germany == DE. When I press "G", I should be > close to all countries starting with "G". I think sorting by what you > see (i.e country names) is the only sane approach. Or adding the ISO > code before the country name, but that's kind of ugly. Well, I seem to have crossed threads rather badly. The idea I was trying to promote was that of displaying the ISO *language* code in language chooser, and sorting by it. For countries, it probably makes sense to sort them alphabetically by whatever language they're displayed in. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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