Re: List of countries (WAS: National Number to text conversion)

[Nis Jorgensen <nis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

brian ally wrote:

> Thanks, Nis. Here's my revised list, using those (errors of letter-case 
> entirely my own, owing to my hazy understanding of capitilisation for 
> hyphenated french nouns):

With the risk of getting horribly off topic, you may want to be 
consistent between the languages in whether you use the "official" name 
or the "common" name.

In general, this problem arises in cases where the official name is 
controversial ("TAÏWAN, PROVINCE DE CHINE"), much longer than the common 
one ("IRAN, RÉPUBLIQUE ISLAMIQUE D'"), differs in spelling from the 
common form ("VIET NAM") or is less likely to be immediately recognized 
("KOREA, REPUBLIC OF").

/Nis