HomeUnited KingdomYou never know if its United Kingdom, England or Great Britain. So you scroll all the way down U, then you go to G, then you go to E. But this? This is by far the worst I have seen.
You never know if its United Kingdom, England or Great Britain. So you scroll all the way down U, then you go to G, then you go to E. But this? This is by far the worst I have seen.
September 5, 2024
You never know if its United Kingdom, England or Great Britain. So you scroll all the way down U, then you go to G, then you go to E. But this? This is by far the worst I have seen.
I feel like it used to be Great Britain so they fixed it, but only half way..
Or the secret 4th thing: It’s paired with United States in its own section somewhere. Sometimes at the top, sometimes at the bottom
Given that “spain” is where it would be if it was “espana”, I guess they’re going by ISO country codes where it would be GB (Ukraine gets UK)
I’m guessing the menu is translated for the interface from the actual names by which it is ordered.
I bet this is sorted alphabetically and ours is GB but the full name has been shown. Same reason Western Sahara is with the Es (it’s code is EH under ISO 3166)
I mean this is literally one of the firstiest world of the first world problems. But FFS it is A REAL PROBLEM.
Looks like it’s using an alphabetical list of ISO codes instead of sorting the display names alphabetically, which is indeed a little silly.
* Western Sahara = EH * Spain = ES
Gunited Gingdom
I once found it as “Great Britain and Northern Ireland” situated between Sri Lanka and Sudan
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Moving to Canada, drop down menus were an unexpected bonus. Near top, no more mystery scrolling lol.
I was working in Denmark. We were listed somewhere after Somalia as Storbritannien is GB in Danish and it still kept the order even though it was translated to English!
I saw ‘Britain’ too once – annoying.
MVP baby!…. raise another ticket if you want it alphabetically sorted
Using air frances website? That would be Royaume-Uni. That one took me a while.
All the way to W
Find: Great Britain Replace: United Kingdom >[Replace All]
Probably a hard-coded list, or the term is substituted client-side. Pretty poor stuff either way.
If you’re on pc you should be able to open the drop-down menu and press the key of the letter of the country you are looking for, it should jump to it
lol. Underlying this is a value for the form that is Great Britain, with United Kingdom being the display name, and sorting being by value not display name. Some qa engineer needs to be shot for not checking this
Top tip – when this box opens press “U”On the keyboard and it usually takes you right there no scrolling.
It looks like it originally said “Great Britain” but they changed it without changing the position in the list.
Sometimes I’ve been so lazy I’ve lied on these, because I couldn’t be arsed finding it. They usually have a search feature, but the times I’ve lied couldn’t of.
Someone types U to get to United States and gets stuck here.
Even worse on my work PC – it’s under R for Reino Unido (Spanish company) – even on the English translation where every other country is in line
It’s never England bro
UK passport site, tab to drop-down, press u, nothing. Press g, nothing. Press e, nothing. Scroll right to the top, United Kingdom. Utter wank user experience and probably cost a few hundred grand too.
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I feel like it used to be Great Britain so they fixed it, but only half way..
Or the secret 4th thing: It’s paired with United States in its own section somewhere. Sometimes at the top, sometimes at the bottom
Given that “spain” is where it would be if it was “espana”, I guess they’re going by ISO country codes where it would be GB (Ukraine gets UK)
I’m guessing the menu is translated for the interface from the actual names by which it is ordered.
I bet this is sorted alphabetically and ours is GB but the full name has been shown. Same reason Western Sahara is with the Es (it’s code is EH under ISO 3166)
I mean this is literally one of the firstiest world of the first world problems. But FFS it is A REAL PROBLEM.
Looks like it’s using an alphabetical list of ISO codes instead of sorting the display names alphabetically, which is indeed a little silly.
* Western Sahara = EH
* Spain = ES
Gunited Gingdom
I once found it as “Great Britain and Northern Ireland” situated between Sri Lanka and Sudan
[deleted]
Moving to Canada, drop down menus were an unexpected bonus. Near top, no more mystery scrolling lol.
I was working in Denmark. We were listed somewhere after Somalia as Storbritannien is GB in Danish and it still kept the order even though it was translated to English!
I saw ‘Britain’ too once – annoying.
MVP baby!…. raise another ticket if you want it alphabetically sorted
Using air frances website? That would be Royaume-Uni. That one took me a while.
All the way to W
Find: Great Britain
Replace: United Kingdom
>[Replace All]
Probably a hard-coded list, or the term is substituted client-side. Pretty poor stuff either way.
If you’re on pc you should be able to open the drop-down menu and press the key of the letter of the country you are looking for, it should jump to it
lol. Underlying this is a value for the form that is Great Britain, with United Kingdom being the display name, and sorting being by value not display name.
Some qa engineer needs to be shot for not checking this
Top tip – when this box opens press “U”On the keyboard and it usually takes you right there no scrolling.
It looks like it originally said “Great Britain” but they changed it without changing the position in the list.
Sometimes I’ve been so lazy I’ve lied on these, because I couldn’t be arsed finding it. They usually have a search feature, but the times I’ve lied couldn’t of.
Someone types U to get to United States and gets stuck here.
Even worse on my work PC – it’s under R for Reino Unido (Spanish company) – even on the English translation where every other country is in line
It’s never England bro
UK passport site, tab to drop-down, press u, nothing. Press g, nothing. Press e, nothing. Scroll right to the top, United Kingdom. Utter wank user experience and probably cost a few hundred grand too.
I know it’s never England
This is why I’m moving country
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