[Tickets #11692] Re: Kolab backend: Handling of 'country' field

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/11692
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  Ticket             | 11692
  Updated By         | Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>
  Summary            | Kolab backend: Handling of 'country' field
  Queue              | Turba
  Version            | Git master
  Type               | Bug
  State              | Feedback
  Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
  Owners             |
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Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> (2012-11-15 10:20) wrote:

>> DE is at least a standard. Country names aren't. That aside, do the
>> other clients at least always use the English country name?
>
> On my German Outlook installation, it uses German country names.  
> Would be a bit strange to send a letter from Germany to f.e. Austria  
> with an English country name on the envelope.
>
> My primary goal is that horde doesn't trash user data if possible.  
> So it would be nice to keep the free text somehow, may be prefixed  
> with "Custom: "?

Not possible, because the country field is an enum. We may try harder  
to map to Turba values, if that's needed, but the output would always  
be what Turba know. This could be the country name, translated or not.  
The point is that this field is a technical field, not for direct  
human consumption, so using a translated country name makes absolutely  
no sense.