Relevance and state names

[nvitucci]

Hi! Is there a reason why most states have relevance = 0 while smaller states with the same phone code as bigger ones (e.g. Andorra) have relevance = 0.5? Unless I've misunderstood the usage of this parameter, I'd suggest to change the relevance value from 0 to 1.

On a side note: would it be sensible to keep the names of the states as pure ASCII rather than UTF-8?

Nicola

[mledoze]

The data for the relevance parameter comes from https://github.com/JamieAppleseed/selectToAutocomplete, I know it's incomplete and sometimes inaccurate. I've trying to find a better source for this, without success.
The parameter doesn't have a maximum value, it starts at zero and can have any value. The idea behind it is to give more importance to some countries so that UAE is not listed/presented before US or UK.

Please feel free to send a pull request with the fixes.

would it be sensible to keep the names of the states as pure ASCII rather than UTF-8?

Why would you need the names in ASCII? Some country name require accented characters so I don't think we can use ASCII for this.

[nvitucci]

The parameter doesn't have a maximum value, it starts at zero and can have any value. The idea behind it is to give more importance to some countries so that UAE is not listed/presented before US or UK.

Yes, I understand this, but the strange thing is to have countries like Austria or Chile with a weight of 0 while small countries like Andorra or Isle of Man have a weight of 0.5. The problem is not the maximum value, but rather the minimum. For now I'm giving a weight of 1 to countries which have a weight of 0, but I can indeed look further into this and send a pull request.

Why would you need the names in ASCII? Some country name require accented characters so I don't think we can use ASCII for this.

I'd use ASCII for the names only because it would make it easier to use them as keys, URIs or whatever without being forced to use UTF8 or escapes. There could be an additional field using UTF8 then.

[mledoze]

but the strange thing is to have countries like Austria or Chile with a weight of 0 while small countries like Andorra or Isle of Man have a weight of 0.5

I'll fix this.

I'd use ASCII for the names only because it would make it easier to use them as keys, URIs or whatever without being forced to use UTF8 or escapes.

You shoudn't use the country name as keys but the country codes instead, they are better candidates for this.