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Narrow escape for people from Yemen (YE).

As a Norwegian I'm very curious, where in the pipeline were you using YAML? And why?

I've only seen it used for configuration.

usually locale's paths gone wrong

I've seen teams use it as a replacement for JSON because it has the perception of being more "modern"

While JSON is annoying because it lacks some pretty basic features (comments, trailing comma), at least its spec is short. YAML is huuuge - there are way too many ways to do the same thing.

We were using a fork of https://github.com/carmen-ruby/carmen/tree/master/iso_data/b... with our own translations. We used the data in the signup form.

I usually think of yaml for internal config files, would never think of yaml for user data.

Don't ask me why though, might have something to do with how it's written like a python file, no user would want to write their data in yaml format.

Probably, OP didn't keep user data in YAML, but I think there was config that kept allowed countries to sign up.

Or were they from Noway ...