do any one have ready made combo box with all the country codes present
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rhino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Björn Persson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <mysql@lists.mysql.com>
Sent: 21/11/2005 6:18 AM
Subject: Re: Country codes


> I'm not saying it was an inappropriate way to present the data but it
> certainly was unexpected and, in my opinion, counter-intuitive. I didn't
> want the original poster to see page 3, see that his own country, Brazil,
> was missing, and dismiss the PDF as garbage.
>
> Rhino
>
> P.S. Sorry for top-posting but I can't intersperse normally with your
email.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Björn Persson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <mysql@lists.mysql.com>
> Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2005 7:21 PM
> Subject: Re: Country codes
>
>
> Rhino wrote:
> > Be careful when reading those lists! When I looked at page 3 in the
> > English
> > PDF, it said it was in numeric order and the list showed all the
countries
> > that use country code 1, then country 20 (Egypt), then country 210
(spare)
> > *without* showing 55 (Brazil). Page 6 shows countries 500 through 509,
> > then
> > 51 through 58, and so on. Therefore, Brazil doesn't appear until Page 6.
> > They have obviously chosen to sort the list only on the FIRST DIGIT of
the
> > country code; that's a pretty odd form of numerical order, in my
opinion!
>
> That's not normal numerical order of course, but it's exactly the order
you
> need if you're parsing a phone number where you don't know beforehand how
> many digits are the country code. I suppose you could call it alphabetical
> order, only it's applied to digits instead of letters.
>
> Björn Persson
>
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