Bug#474766: Please sort www.debian.org/consultants in the respective language
On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 10:14:46AM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> * Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> [2010-08-03 21:16:53 CEST]:
> > On Ma, 03 aug 10, 19:23:50, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> > > -=| Andrei Popescu, Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 11:08:48PM +0300 |=-
> > > The CD/vendors page is only slightly better - it allows the translator
> > > to order the countries in the index at the page top, without any
> > > control over the full list (which comes sourted by ISO country codes).
> > > And the "better" part is questionable since sorting <HRc>, <UKc> in
> > > your native language is quite awkward. In Bulgarian, for example,
> > > <HRc> must be after <UKc>. Apply that discrepancy for a list of 50
> > > countries and you can easily get a headache :)
> >
> > This sounds like just another easily solvable bug, if only the
> > translations were all in .po files :(
>
> I would be very interested to know how you would solve the issue if
> all translations were in .po files -- they don't automagically sort
> country codes in the native language.
For the record, the package iso-codes provides these data:
ISO language, territory, currency, script codes and their translations
http://packages.debian.org/sid/iso-codes
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Simon Paillard
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