On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 08:02:44PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 05 April 2004 10:23, Christian Perrier wrote: > > If someone has a better standards organisation for this issue, please > > mention it. And, non, Microsoft is not the answer.:-) > > Someone mentioned looking at leading map makers (I think he mentioned the > National Geographical Society). > But... maps are often lagging behind a bit and have of course, especially in > the past, been heavily influenced by political considerations in the past. > (I am fairly sure a Chinese map won't show 'Taiwan' (and vice versa?) ;-) [...]
Another source is the icu-data package; ICU stands for 'International Components for Unicode' and is developed by IBM, see http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/ The English names for countries/regions are available at http://oss.software.ibm.com/cvs/icu/locale/common/main/en.xml?rev=1.10&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
