Re: [Haskell-cafe] Country names and language names

Thanks for the input -- both items. f Le 2013-03-06 14:20, Henk-Jan van Tuyl a écrit :

On Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:38:11 +0100, Obscaenvs wrote:

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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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