As an example, for country names in French, look at the "territory type" section of this CLDR locale. It helps a lot if you are familiar with ISO-3166 country codes.
cjl On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Björn Balazs <bjoern.bal...@user-prompt.com> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > thanks for sharing! I created an issue to get back to > make use of your idea: > > https://github.com/bbalazs/userweave/issues/11 > > Cheers, > Björn > > Am Freitag, 28. September 2012, 11:44:56 schrieb Chris > Leonard: >> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 4:51 AM, Björn Balazs >> >> <bjoern.bal...@user-prompt.com> wrote: >> >> I made everything except countries after B, >> >> I don't have time know, I will continue soon. There >> > >> > are an AMAZING >> > >> >> number of countries on this planet ! >> >> Just wanted to share a few of my favorite tricks for > finding localized >> language or country names. >> >> 1) Look it up in the ISO639 / ISO-639-3 PO (languages) > or ISO-3166 for >> countries in the relevant language. >> >> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=iso-codes/iso- > codes.git;a=tree >> >> 2) Look up the Language article in English Wikipedia, > check out the >> left hand bar for an interwiki link to the same article > in another >> language's Wikipedia. Not surprisingly, there are a > high percentage >> of languages with wiki articles on their own language > (in their own >> language), so this is not quite as random as it may > seem. >> >> 3) Look for it in the CLDR locales. Not as convenient > as you need to >> download th erepo, no convenient web-broswer. >> >> cjl > -- > Dipl.-Psych. Björn Balazs > Business Management & Research > T +49 30 6098548-21 | M +49 179 4541949 > > User Prompt GmbH | Psychologic IT Expertise > Grünberger Str. 49, 10245 Berlin | www.user-prompt.com > HRB 142277 | AG Berlin Charlottenburg | Geschäftsführer > Björn Balazs -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to l10n+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/l10n/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
