h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Could we perhaps add a code for Researchers who are Canadian?

I totally agree. You should make this comment on the page for the 1.1 version.

I knew this bit of the code would bring trouble.

My intent, for what it's now worth, was to break down the community by rough location into a few easily definable groups. I was of course, omitting to remember that Candians hate being called 'American', Norwegians hate being called 'Scandinavian' etc. etc.

Frankly, do what you like - I'm not changing the code at the minute though, 'cos I'm too busy.

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Maybe a solution is to define the field in terms of the official two-letter country code as defined in the ISO country code standard (whose name escapes me at the moment). Thus, people put the prefix (R, I think) and their country code. I would use RCA or Rca, perhaps.

Anyways, I think I should probably get some sleep.......

The only problem with that, as you pointed out, is that the code is then not self-containing, because people keep having to go and look bits up that they can't remember.

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And as _I_ have pointed out () this doesn't really matter. You can still have the same level of information in the Entry, and people can check the ISO-file if the code in question isn't mentioned there and they actually care to know which part of "other" it indicates.

Yeah, but the difference is that I've started to ignore you now, whereas I'm always happy to accept original critcisms.

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