Christian Perrier dijo [Thu, May 06, 2004 at 07:22:01AM +0200]: > When the first releases of countrychooser were being thought, I > imagined this problem and thought about using "Choose location" > > I was however told further that indeed "location" may seem pretty > vague as this may be a country, region, land, state, city, school, > whatever in the mind of the reader. > > Because the list is far closer to a list of countries rather than a > list of "regions", the menu entry was finally made to "Choose > country". Note however that the official wording of iso-3166 is used > in the main countrychooser screens ("country, region or other area of > geopolitical interest").....this coming from a bug raised by the > Chinese people (mostly because it lists "China", "Taiwan blah blah", > "Hong-Kong" and at least one of these isn't a country, strictly > speaking) > (...)
Maybe the best way to avoid the name-that-geographical-entity wordgame would be to ask 'where are you', 'where do you plan on using this computer' or something like that. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]