[Gnumed-devel] states per country (was roadmap tidying)

[J Busser]

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Karsten,

As one example, United Arab Emirates (ISO code "AE") had no states 
defined in the files that you supplied, so per our offline 
discussion, I provided a default state value of "AE-1".

But suppose now we have a user in AE who creates a patient, and 
enters an address, which could now carry a default state value of 
AE-1. We know AE-1 has no meaning. Would the user be permitted to 
edit the value to two blanks ("  ") or to input a new value, or will 
the client software (or back end) disallow the entry of anything 
except a value that already exists in the back end?

If the back end *would* permit the bootstrapping of default state 
codes of  "  " (two blank spaces), why not supply this instead of 
"<iso 2-char country code>-1" for countries for which we no state 
codes?