JQuery Autocomplete Plugin extension for country list

I created this quick extension to the excellent jQuery autocomplete plugin to facilitate country selection in a form.

Comments, ideas, suggestions and bugs are welcome, use this blog post.

Demo

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Todo

• Figure out how to search on accented characters
• Speed up first parse
• Enable pre-selected country
• Find icons for the missing countries: Antartica, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin

Credits & special thanks to

• Jörn Zaefferer for the Autocomplete plugin
• Fam Fam Fam for the flag icons
• Aral Balkan for the ISO country data in JSon
• Chris Brunelle for fixing a bug in Internet Exploder 7/8

License

Like jQuery, this code is licensed under both the MIT and GPL licenses.