well, it's not deliberately filtered out anyway. So it failed to match, either because the amazon data wasn't there when it looked, or because the algorithm wasn't good enough to find the match.
personally, I would use the small flags *instead of* the country names on the compact listing
2004-12-16 35100, 2004
DJKC
well, against a white background that will almost always
2004-12-16 35110, 2004
dupuy
but not in addition to
2004-12-16 35120, 2004
DJKC
errr, aren't people more likely to know the country name than the flag?
2004-12-16 35127, 2004
cikkolata
yeah :/
2004-12-16 35159, 2004
dupuy
flag takes up less space
2004-12-16 35118, 2004
DJKC
they do, but if no one knows them you kind of lose the benefit of tagging what country it's from
2004-12-16 35119, 2004
dupuy
which in the compact listing is an issue
2004-12-16 35120, 2004
cikkolata
I was impressed that I made it do something without making it blow up.
2004-12-16 35147, 2004
dupuy
you can make the flag a link to a popup with the country name
2004-12-16 35101, 2004
dupuy
and people will learn them
2004-12-16 35115, 2004
cikkolata
you have too much faith in people, I think.
2004-12-16 35131, 2004
dupuy
most people recognize the US & UK flags, so 90% of all the flag icons on the site will be recognizable
2004-12-16 35141, 2004
cikkolata
70%
2004-12-16 35146, 2004
cikkolata counted!
2004-12-16 35157, 2004
cikkolata
I think it was actually 71.something...
2004-12-16 35105, 2004
DJKC
from helping run a tracker in the past with a lot of asian users that just showed the flag and you had to mouse over to find the country name, it gets really annoying rather quickly to not have the name
2004-12-16 35127, 2004
DJKC
I learned the flags for Malaysia, Thailand, Philipines, etc pretty quickly but most people won't bother I'd think...
2004-12-16 35137, 2004
dupuy
you could combine the flag and ISO-3166 code for a small-fixed size & easily recognized representation
2004-12-16 35149, 2004
dupuy
e.g. [flag] GB
2004-12-16 35120, 2004
DJKC
that'd be a lot nicer
2004-12-16 35133, 2004
dupuy
mouseover with the full name (some of them are quite long)
2004-12-16 35145, 2004
cikkolata
which bit are we actually talking about?
2004-12-16 35155, 2004
dupuy
and you have a good, compact, and comprehensible representation
2004-12-16 35103, 2004
DJKC
cikkolata: as a random shift of topic - Lee Jung Hyun just released her first single in Japan that's covers of a few of her Korean ones in Japanese. It's quite good if you're a fan of her at all
2004-12-16 35154, 2004
cikkolata
never heard her music :/
2004-12-16 35131, 2004
DJKC
ah
2004-12-16 35145, 2004
DJKC
most English speakers know her from DDR
2004-12-16 35114, 2004
DJKC
one of those annoying/interesting things - her English name doesn't remotely match her Japanese one
but kind of interesting that her Japanese official site says Lee for the English but has i in the transliteration into katakana -_-
2004-12-16 35118, 2004
cikkolata
I know what the korean is (I'd write it as i jeong hyeon), which is why I was pondering whether they actually say it differently or whether they just like using lee for a name pronounced "ee"
2004-12-16 35102, 2004
ruaok is away: playing director for someone else's non-profit
even after the 'Rechtschreibreform', '�' may appear at the end of words (and of course in the middle)
2004-12-16 35123, 2004
dupuy
unless it is the case that in post-reform rules it may appears at the end of a word after a short vowel, I think what I wrote is not incorrect
2004-12-16 35148, 2004
dupuy
really, what i was trying to convey was a general sense of the rules, and an idea that they have changed
2004-12-16 35108, 2004
dupuy
which I think I managed to do
2004-12-16 35146, 2004
yalaforge
in post-reform rules, 'da�' was correct, which is a '�' at the end of a word after a short vowel
2004-12-16 35133, 2004
dupuy
would it be sufficient to add "and" before "depending"? (i.e. (only after a long vowel or at the end of a word, and depending on which [German spelling rules] you use)
2004-12-16 35112, 2004
yalaforge re-reads the wiki page
2004-12-16 35136, 2004
dupuy thinks it might be easier for yalaforge to just make the necessary changes
2004-12-16 35143, 2004
yalaforge
ok
2004-12-16 35121, 2004
dupuy reads the musicbrainz-users digest and wonders why everybody thinks the Rechtschreibreform eliminated ß entirely
2004-12-16 35135, 2004
yalaforge
that's a common mistake
2004-12-16 35112, 2004
yalaforge
the '�' is only converted to 'ss' after a short vowel
2004-12-16 35120, 2004
yalaforge
maybe there are exceptions, but I don't know any
2004-12-16 35126, 2004
yalaforge
unfortunately, the reform made some changes that make the written language lose semantics
2004-12-16 35130, 2004
yalaforge
what a mess
2004-12-16 35136, 2004
dupuy wonders if it's necessary to have a comment on the ß in the German text
2004-12-16 35107, 2004
yalaforge
I don't care
2004-12-16 35140, 2004
yalaforge
most germans don't know the rules exactly. non-germans don't have any chances to do it right ;-)
2004-12-16 35133, 2004
lgonze has quit
2004-12-16 35120, 2004
yalaforge has quit
2004-12-16 35136, 2004
grin_k1tt3n joined the channel
2004-12-16 35140, 2004
grin_k1tt3n
ah, finally
2004-12-16 35116, 2004
grin_k1tt3n
doesn't like periods, it seems
2004-12-16 35151, 2004
cikkolata
what doesn't?
2004-12-16 35154, 2004
cikkolata
irc?
2004-12-16 35124, 2004
DJKC
men?
2004-12-16 35139, 2004
cikkolata giggles
2004-12-16 35154, 2004
ruaok suspects the tagger
2004-12-16 35126, 2004
cikkolata sighs
2004-12-16 35133, 2004
cikkolata
is there /any/ way to find stuff in freedb?
2004-12-16 35155, 2004
dupuy
the advanced search sort of works for latin-1
2004-12-16 35104, 2004
dupuy
beyond that, nope
2004-12-16 35131, 2004
dupuy
(well, if you had a FreeDB client that you could feed a disc or disc id to)
