Gravity & WPML alphabetic sort of translated country list?

I did see this topic at the WPML forums:
http://wpml.org/forums/topic/sorting-of-dropdown-menus/

The only chance Gravity Forms would have at sorting the drop down would be after it's translated, with the gform_pre_render filter. I'm not sure how you could go about working with the sorted list of countries.

Would there be a way to use a different country drop down, already pre-sorted, based on the country selection?

How many languages are you using? Would it be possible to create a list of countries for each language and display the proper one based on the language selection? This only works without too much trouble if you have just a couple languages. I suppose that does not allow WPMU to do its translation though: you're just providing translated lists of countries for each language. That sort of defeats the purpose of the WPML plugin. But, I can't see another way of doing it without digging in to how WPML translates the drop down and when that actually happens.

You can sort the array using the PHP sort function. In the function you use with gform_pre_render, you will read the array of translated countries, which should be out of order (if they were sorted based on US English before WPML did its magic) sort them, then repopulate the drop down with the newly sorted countries. The issue will be with when WPML does its translation. Hopefully it is done before gform_pre_render is called so you can actually see the out of order values and sort them, then use them in the form.