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There is web component for that https://www.webcomponents.org/element/Protoss78/country-select https://www.webcomponents.org/element/Protoss78/country-sele...

• seszett 9y ago
  It's yet another tangent in this topic, but there's something that bothers me here, and in many things that try to handle multiple languages. There are 47 lists of countries in French (that's just an example, I guess English and Spanish have as many of those) in the project that provides them [0], including half a dozen or so just for different regions of France. As far as I can see, almost of them are exactly identical except for the Canadian one (which has "Saint-Vincent-et-les Grenadines" instead of "Saint-Vincent-et-les-Grenadines" among other things). For English, en_US and en_UK have differences as meaningful as "Wallis and Futuna" vs. "Wallis & Futuna". Arabic has 28 different versions, all strictly identical. English, French, Spanish and Arabic "version" alone make up 33% of all content in the repo. What purpose does this serve? Who maintains these largely meaningless lists? Who chooses which languages make it to the list, and which regions do? I'm as puzzled by that as I am by the choices people make about what countries make it to their list of countries in select lists. [0] https://github.com/umpirsky/country-list https://github.com/umpirsky/country-list