On Monday, March 22, 2004 1:48 PM, Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * Neil McGovern ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040322 14:40]: >> On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 01:36:20PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: >>> * Neil McGovern ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040322 13:10]: >>>> Britian == GB >>>> Ukraine == UK >>>> >>>> Acording to the ISO codes anyway. [...] > Sorry, but the claim about ISO is wrong. According to ISO 3166 > http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/list -en1-semic.txt > Ukraine is UA, and United Kingdom is GB (and as far as I know the > _only_ country-TLD not the same as the ISO-name). You're comparing two different ISO standards (and mixing the two in ways that don't work), afaics. ISO3166 covers territory and country names, whereas ISO639-2 relates to language (and therefore locale) names. The ISO369-[12] decoding list (http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/englangn.html) lists Ukranian as UA. <background> The ISO3166 decoding table (http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/iso _3166-1_decoding_table.html) lists `UK' as `exceptionally reserved'. As noted in http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/04background-on-iso-3166/i so3166-1-and-ccTLDs.html there are currently five ccTLDs that do not match the ISO3166 codes for the area in question. They /are/ all, however, `exceptionally reserved' by ISO. </background> Adam
