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submitted 5 days ago by shderz@sh.itjust.works to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[–] arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 113 points 5 days ago (5 children)

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 40 points 4 days 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@kutsuya.dev 37 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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".

[–] LorIps@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

In my case it's either (A)ustria, (Ö)sterreich (listed as O), or (Ö)sterreich (listed after Z)

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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.

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Plot Twist: The site designer is Chinese and its now (Y)英国 [YingGuo/England]

[–] Deebster@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 days ago

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