[Haskell-cafe] Country names and language names

[Obscaenvs]

Thanks for the input -- both items.
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Le 2013-03-06 14:20, Henk-Jan van Tuyl a écrit :
> On Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:38:11 +0100, Obscaenvs <obscaenvs at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> :
> :
>> 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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