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Re:ISO name change for Türkiye by jiggawatts on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @09:25AM (#32069551)
Sit on my lap youngling, and I will tell you tales of i18n horror... and I'm from an English-speaking country!

A realistic scenario is an Australian writing French poetry while on holidays in Turkey. Now you have an OS GUI with en-GB as the language, licensing and date/number formatting as per the AU region, French spelling dictionary, a US-101 keyboard layout, Turkey as the location, and GMT+3 as the time zone.

It's a rare piece of software that can handle this. Few vendors have staff that have even heard of such exotic places.

There are still people... many people... that deny the existence of places outside of the United States of America. Such filthy, heathen locations are surely a thing of myth, or legend!

Places where dates are formatted with the days before the month, followed by the year in some sort of weird, unnatural order.

Nations that have fallen into the trap of some sort of mass hallucination, or shared dream of common measurement units. Some sort of... metric, for space, time, and matter. Maybe they've been watching too much Star Trek!

Multicultural countries where strange unions of races are commonplace, and couples may want to watch Netflix in one language, but have subtitles in a different language. Neither of which are English for the hearing-impaired! Surely, nobody but the deaf are unable to comprehend the universal English language! Not to mention that such taboo couplings are, thankfully, still banned on this stream of holy virtue and shall not be permitted by the data scientists that have declared: "Your union is a statistically negligible!"

Re:ISO name change for Türkiye by chrismorgan on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @11:45AM (#32071601)
> There are still people... many people... that deny the existence of places outside of the United States of America.

Two fun anecdotes my mother has recounted when we were all in Denver for ~5 months in Denver 1996:

1. Asked where we were from on one occasion (after hearing an Australian accent): “Australia.” Response: “Oh, did you come by bus?” Now it is possible that there was a misunderstanding there, but mum doesn’t think so.

2. Of those that didn’t already know, only one person successfully identified where we were from, and that person was deaf. (It’s fascinating to try something like this on video without audio where there’s nothing obvious static to identify nationality: I find I can identify both Australian and American correctly at a rate considerably better than random, without ever having made a study of it.)

Re:ISO name change for Türkiye by rconti on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @12:11PM (#32072009)
Can't we use our USA-centrism (centricity?) to make the behavior of the country drop-down just a little bit better? Surely I'm not the only one burdened with having to scroll past a hundred of these .. ahem.. OTHER... countries.. to find "United States of America".

Yes, I could begin typing "Unite.." but we all know that ends up on United Arab Emirates, and then when I continue on to "...d Sta..." and it doesn't work, only to find out this country picker uses "USA" or something similar so it breaks the autocomplete muscle memory.

Clearly, if we're the center of the known universe, we could use our power to make it a little easier to enter my billing and shipping information.

Re:ISO name change for Türkiye by Taniwha on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @04:10PM (#32075004)
That just pisses off everyone else on the planet - plus the other countries in the Americas that consist of united states, and who equally consider themselves "American" much as French people are "European"
Re:ISO name change for Türkiye by Beltalowda on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @07:59PM (#32077383)
I know you're joking, but ideally forms like that should put the current country based on GeoIP at the top; these long selects really are kind of annoying: sometimes I accidentally use the keyboard to do weird shit because I accidentally didn't select the browser, some JS dropdowns don't allow typing at all, naming is somewhat inconsistent for some countries ("Netherlands" or "The Netherlands"?)
Re:ISO name change for Türkiye by rconti on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @01:19PM (#32085770)
I'm only half joking! Yeah, I've found some put your GeoIP'd country at the top, which should be the default behavior. That throws me off occasionally, too, but I appreciate it!
Re:ISO name change for Türkiye by int_19h on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @06:26PM (#32076517)
"Airstrip 1"?