>> If we accept for the moment that distributing airport codes with an
>> operating system is a Good Thing (I think it is), the present
>> "airport" file is rather incomplete and very biased toward American
>> locales.
> There are even more things only supporting Americans or people
> speaking english native.  [...]  Look at /usr/share/* and you find
> some things that would be nice to have in more than just one
> language, not?

True.  So why don't you submit other-language versions of some of them?
While it's true that there are lots of things that it would be nice to
be less Anglocentric or North-America-centric about, I see no reason
why we can't start with the airport info file the original message
offered.

					der Mouse

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