On Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:38:11 +0100, Obscaenvs <obscae...@gmail.com> wrote:
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The iso3166-country-codes [1] package at Hackage by Jon Fairbairn
provides a start in the right direction, but an obvious improvement upon
it would be to have a function or map that takes an ISO 639 code and an
ISO 3166 code and gives the correct human-readable name for the country
as per the chosen target language (the ISO 639 code), and another
function/map for languages. It would alleviate coding those pesky
country and language switchers a *lot*, among other things.
Jon Fairbarn that coded the iso3166-country-codes package said in
private correspondence that it seemed worthwhile doing, but he couldn't
do it in his spare time, which is understandable. I am willing to do
some of the stuff involved (I know Swedish, French and some Turkish in
addition to the ubiquitous English), but obviously it's too big a
project for one man to handle (what with all the c'n'p involved :) ).
I feel that this should be done, since it seems it isn't yet. I am
inexperienced in coordinating such endeavours, though, so I would like
to share that task at least to begin with, if possible.
Any thoughts?
You can find the Dutch names in the Dutch Wikipedia:
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_ISO_639-1-codes
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1
Do not forget that country names can change; e.g. the Netherlands Antilles
were split up in 2010. This might cause problems if you store country
codes in a database. If you simply remove obsolete country codes, the
database can not be used properly any more.
Regards,
Henk-Jan van Tuyl
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