Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 01/04/07 12:02

Scripsit Andy Dingley:

> user wrote:
>
>> Anyone have a full list of Nationalities?
>
> Tricky question,

Quite possibly a troll question, if we think about the foolishness of the
question, its off-topic nature, the "name" of the poster, and the poster's
replies to answers.

> but if you're posting it to a HTML newsgroup, then I
> suspect that what you're really looking for is the ISO standard list
> of codes.

Quite a strange logic you have. Posting to an HTML group does not mean you
need to be all wrong.

> The country codes are ISO 3166, the language codes are ISO
> 639

And neither of them has anything to do with nationalities.

> There's a big political aspect to what a "country" or a "nationality"
> is, but mere web designers don't need to worry too much about that,
> just use the standard list.

For what? Use the standard list of countries for a menu of specifiying the
user's nationality? That's not only clueless, it's also incredibly stupid.
Wait... maybe you don't simply know what "nationality" means and you confuse
it with citizenship _or_ with country of residence.

> Most importantly, use the same standard
> list as everyone else, otherwise you can have some awful data transfer
> problems.

Was you answer meant to fight trolling with trolling? It seldom works.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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