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While we are complaining about this, can we all agree that using plain <select> for country is an anti pattern. There should be a fuzzy search. So many times I

While we are complaining about this, can we all agree that using plain <select> for country is an anti pattern. There should be a fuzzy search. So many times I have to search for my country under United Kingdom UK Britain Great Britain England Only to find that it was “Great Britain” but collated in the B’s amongst Bhutan and Belgium, etc.

logifail 5y ago
> So many times I have to search for my country under [...] It's even better when you have to explain this specific oddity in a foreign language. Try politely explaining to a German consular official that they probably need to look in their system's drop-down box under 'V' for 'Vereinigtes* Königreich' [UK] (instead of 'E' for 'England' or indeed 'G' for 'Großbritannien' [GB]) as they are attempting to enter passport details... * 'United', in German...
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