On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 13:05:35 +0100 Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The ISO-3166 list is officially at ISO a *country* list. > > However, ISO (and UNO as this list is validated by UNO) considers that > many special territories, entities deserve their own code. Most often > because they are autonomous territories even if they are not > represented at UNO, for instance. > > However, they are not regions, so the best adapted term is *country* > anyway. We should also think that trying to be amore precise could be > somewhat confusing to our users. > > This part of d-i is most often aimed at choosing a country, so I > prefer we keep this simple formulation... I just noticed that HongKong and Macau are not countries when I translated iso-codes. "country/region" is simple and precise enough. I don't think anyone would confused by these words. In UN's website, it was described as "Country or area & region codes". Ok, It's not a real problem to d-i itself. Feel free to change it or not. Thanks. -- Best Regards, Carlos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
