On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, David Starner wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:57:06AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On 19 Sep 2001, Gilbert Laycock wrote: > > > > > I believe that en_UK would be for Ukrainian english. The mind boggles.
> There's an en_DA, and someone was arguing for basically a en_SK recently. > It wouldn't be unprecedented. > > en_UK is English as spoken in the United Kingdom. The ISO country code for > > the Ukraine is UA. > en_UK is not English as spoken in the United Kingdom. The ISO country code > for the United Kingdom is GB. UK is not yet assigned, according to > /usr/share/misc/countries.gz. Err... the country code for United Kingdom may be GB per ISO 3166, but UK as a country code still references United Kingdom, not the Ukraine -- note the TLD (which ought to match the ISO code, but oh well). I hardly think 'UA' makes a sensible abbreviation for 'Ukraine' unless 'UK' is already taken -- so whether or not it appears in the official list, actual usage shows that UK is understood to mean United Kingdom. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer