Re:Get in zoomer, we're saving React
by klondike_klive on Saturday September 24, 2022 @06:51AM
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Recently scrolling through a list of countries to choose 'United Kingdom' I eventually found it under 'G'. The nearest I can figure, it was previously for 'Great Britain' and was never re-sorted? (Never mind that nobody in the UK has called it Great Britain since maybe mid 20th century!)
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People still say Great Britain all the time (it refers to something slightly different than the UK though [1]). It's what the Olympic team is called, for example.
[1] https://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/the-difference-between-the-unit...
Re:Get in zoomer, we're saving React
by klondike_klive on Monday September 26, 2022 @12:03PM
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That's true, I forgot about Team GB!
Re:Get in zoomer, we're saving React
by rpadovani on Saturday September 24, 2022 @07:25AM
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Ahhhhhh I hate this, it happens so many time when you're using a translated software: they proper translate the label, but do not order stuff again. In German, Germany is Deutschland but still comes after France
Re:Get in zoomer, we're saving React
by mananaysiempre on Saturday September 24, 2022 @08:42AM
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The ISO 3166 code is GB (the uk. TLD being a grandfathered exception), they might have sorted by that. There would be more cases of “wrong” order in the list, though most of them would be more subtle than that.