Comment 6 for bug 8254

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Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 15:28:55 +0200
From: Frans Pop <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Cc: Christian Perrier <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#272136: countrychooser: db_go fails when choosing Arabic as language

On Saturday 18 September 2004 13:07, Frans Pop wrote:
> This might indicate there is something wrong with either the first,
> second, last but one or last ('other') country name (my guess would be
> the second).

Hmmm again.
I tested some more and the behavior is very inconsistent. Anyway, I decided
to add countries to the shortlist in a structured way (starting from the
bottom) and the following shortlist displays correctly:
SD IQ KW MA IN YE TN OM QA LB EG
Adding SY or SA to this list results in problems.

A shortlist of JO AE BH DZ LY also causes problems, but only JO BH is ok.
AE definitely causes problems.

So the problem is somewhere in the translations for AE DZ LY SY and/or SA.
I'll leave it to the arabists to sort out which character(s) is/are the
culprit.

As the translations for these 5 countries are also the longest, it might
also have to do something with length.