It's a static list, sorted once at creation by the original author, with UK as Great Britain.
Then a different author came along and was told to replace GB with UK, probably did a find & replace all across the codebase, and didn't notice the list was sorted.
I suspect they have sorted by the name and displayed a localised version which uses the truncated full version: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Agreed, the words on the screen are not alphabetical (I'm just theorising there's a hidden database column which is).
But in my book, if they're mostly alphabetical, that implies the intention was to be fully alphabetical and something's gone wrong. But maybe that's just me 😂
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TimMadisun@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 61d
Always a delight as a British person living in England, you get the fun of scrolling around to try to find whether it's:
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 57d
Wales et al
PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 61d
My bet is too many cooks:
It's a static list, sorted once at creation by the original author, with UK as Great Britain.
Then a different author came along and was told to replace GB with UK, probably did a find & replace all across the codebase, and didn't notice the list was sorted.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 14 pts · 61d
Always fun to search for Germany in those lists. I've seen Germany listed under D and Deutschland under G.
drolex@sopuli.xyz · 12 pts · 61d
🇬🇷 (4G only) and 🇷🇸 (4G only) have me cackling, too
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 4 pts · 61d
4G only is my favourite gender
stsquad@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 61d
I suspect they have sorted by the name and displayed a localised version which uses the truncated full version: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
ETA fixed typo
Jeeve65@ttrpg.network · 5 pts · 61d
Northern Italian?
stsquad@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 61d
Lol - predictive text got me. Fixed now.
d00ery@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 61d
Edited Twice Already?
Estimated time of arrival?
😅
can@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 61d
To Add
remon@ani.social · 4 pts · 61d
Where does it claim to be alphabetical?
paks@feddit.uk · 15 pts · 61d
It's not claiming, but it quite clearly is.
It's just that Great Britain and the Hellenic Republic have a different display text.
TheWizardOfOdd@fedinsfw.app · 13 pts · 61d
Probably sorted by ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code. United Kingdom is GBR, Guernsey is GGY, Greece is GRC.
paks@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 61d
I thought about codes but wouldn't that put Germany before Denmark? Maybe there's some other code system
DScratch@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 61d
Vibe sort?
remon@ani.social · 1 pts · 61d
Your screenshot kind if proofs it isn't 😅
paks@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 61d
Agreed, the words on the screen are not alphabetical (I'm just theorising there's a hidden database column which is).
But in my book, if they're mostly alphabetical, that implies the intention was to be fully alphabetical and something's gone wrong. But maybe that's just me 😂
Frostbeard@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 61d
Jan Mayen is part of Norway, and Svalbard is under Norway, but due to [long reason] not part of the Kingdom, and with Russian settlements
Kenny2999@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 61d
They've even put Austria among European countries. Correct spelling:
Successful_Try543@feddit.org · 1 pts · 61d
No, that's missing an "i". It should read Austrialia.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 61d
Oh god, svalbard wraps arround so it looks like "svalbard and jan" and "mayen"
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth · 2 pts · 61d
Maybe they just forgot where the letter M goes or maybe it's vibe coded slop.
paks@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 61d
Oh that one's a word wrap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_and_Jan_Mayen
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 61d
JerryMerweather@piefed.social · 1 pts · 61d
perhaps it was sorted into G because it is AKA Great Britain