On 21/11/06, MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop> wrote:
Clytie Siddall <clytie@riverland.net.au> wrote: > We'd still be saving space, even if we allowed several versions of > one country, e.g. [...] > > United Kingdom, England Those aren't two versions of one country. England is a country. United Kingdom is a nation/state, also including Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland. Different things.
Indeed.
[...] > Suisse, La Svizzera, Die Schweiz Won't ordering them like that be controversial?
How about alphabetical order? Die Schweiz, Suisse, La Svizzera or presumably Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera would be ok Some countries may be in multiple scripts (how about India in all 23 officlal languages?) so that is another problem to solve - how about unicode collation order? Though if you include all official languages the space savings may not be so good :/ Daniel