• @arudesalad@sh.itjust.works
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    What’s worse is not knowing if it’s going to be (E)ngland, (G)reat Britain or the (U)nited Kingdom. I always scroll to the wrong point on the list first

    • @i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca
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      405 months ago

      And then, surprise! It’s a UK company so they artificially put it at the TOP of the alphabetical list, but you didn’t notice it before you scrolled everywhere else first.

    • @Willem
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      375 months ago

      Same here, is it going to be (H)olland, (T)he Netherlands or (N)etherlands, with the minor inconvenience of (N)ederland.

      • @superkret@feddit.org
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        155 months ago

        Same here, can be (G)ermany or (D)eutschland.
        And when the website sucks (looking at you Microsoft), it’s Deutschland, but placed in the list at G.

        • @ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
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          5 months ago

          Or (A)llemagne, (N)iemcy, (T)yskland, (S)aksa, (V)asija (you won’t encounter the last two unless you use a website in Finnish or Estonian, however the first three are used in numerous countries including Germany’s neighbors).
          The lists are occasionally auto-translated, sometimes I see “🇹🇷 Truthahn”.

    • @FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Similarly, sometimes forms use foreign countries’ English names, and sometimes the native names. Pretty annoying as a German.

      And a special “screw you” to any UI devs that don’t use the native behavior when typing letters while focused on a select field.

    • Deebster
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      85 months ago

      Or (B)ritain? Once I even found (T)he UK, which I only discovered by searching the page source.