Am Sonntag, den 22.11.2009, 14:56 -0800 schrieb Dan Williams: > On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 11:25 +0100, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > some guys and me are working on the freesmartphone.org projects and > > recently I stumbled over mobile-broadband-provider-info. As among the > > network/phone crowd there is a great need for such a central database, > > we would love to use and base on that. Some things I feel are missing in > > there though -- would you object to augment it with additional > > information such as: > > > > * full name per country > > Does /usr/share/zoneinfo/iso3166.tab not work for you? The only thing > that's missing is localization though.
True, I have just recently become aware of the stuff below /usr/share/zoneinfo and indeed it's helpful. > > > * dial prefix per country > > Do you mean the international dial code like +1 for the US, etc? We > could do this. Yes, that's what I mean. > At least in the case of the timezone db, I think there's better places > to put that. I realize not all platforms use glibc, but I have to > believe that even if you don't, there's going to be some timezone/locale > information already on the system that it would be a shame to duplicate. Ok, I agree with that. Could we at least add countries and provider's that do not necessarily offer mobile broadband but just telephony? A mapping from MCC MNC to country and provider name can be helpful in various ways. Regards, -- :M: _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
