[Haskell-cafe] Country names and language names

[Henk-Jan van Tuyl]

On Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:38:11 +0100, Obscaenvs <obscaenvs at gmail.com> 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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