Nathanael Nerode wrote: > So I wouldn't worry, as long as this is a list of *countries*, anyway, > since there's no other *country* called Macedonia (given that Greece Of course, as I said elsewhere, Taiwan can't be in a "country" list, so you can't deal with both at once. ;-) Oh well.
> Well, maybe it would be better to go with a different, less political, > more neutral list, like the names used on the National Geographic Society > maps, > for instance. :-O Going with the names used on maps would also guarantee > the selection of genuinely short names, since mapmakers have physical > problems putting overly-long names on their maps, and so won't do it. > But overall, I couldn't care less what names are used, so pay no attention to me. Though I have concluded that using countries for locale selection is not really a good idea at all, in the long run; the only locale element that is strictly country based is the currency, and sometimes not even that. Unfortunately I don't have a better alternative. :-P -- Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]