[Translators] geolocation: translated country names (no thanks!)

[wwp]

Hello,


the geolocation plug-in offers (!) to translate a normalized list of
country names.

Well, to me, this is a very bad idea :-D, one could even name it a pain
in the *ss. The plug-in implementation should contain a normalized
multi-lang table and parse it or, fetch from an online database or..
whatever.

Anyway! ISO defines a list of country names:
 http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists.htm
Following that link, I could only find the English and French lists.

Here you can find translated ISO lists in English/French/Spanish/Italian/Russian
at least), available under public domain:

  http://opengeocode.org/download.php

See at bottom of page, all the download links.

I presume that once all translators will have provided country names
list in all languages, there will be no need for changing the way those
lists are handled by the plug-in code, but IMO there's still a need for
a better implementation.

HTH, and hope to see a comment on this from the geolocation maintainer
as well ;-).


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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