Switzerland: French, German, Italian, and Romansh. > On Sep 29, 2020, at 09:24, R.S. <r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl> wrote: > > W dniu 29.09.2020 o 00:54, Robert Prins pisze: >> Just had a look at >> https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zosv2r4sa380683/$file/ceea300_v2r4.pdf?OpenElement&xpdflink >> to find a country code that gives me dates in ISO8601 format (why isn't >> there a simple "LANGUAGE(my-country(ISO))" option to use a specific >> currency, but ISO8601 dates/times? RFE?), >> >> and >> >> I was flabbergasted to see that (at least in this PDF) Lithuania, Latvia, >> Estonia, Cyprus, Slovakia are still using currencies that no longer exist, >> and that Montenegro & Serbia (and probably a few more countries) don't even >> seem to exists. >> >> Robert > > First question: I guess ISO would be ambigous, as there are many ISO > standards which may be considered here. > > BTW: despite of errors/outdated informations - things may be more complicated > than "one country, one answer". Serbia have two very different code pages - > one for cyrillic, one latin. > In Poland we have latin only, but wide set of codepages: CP 870 for EBCDIC, > CP852 for PCDOS, CP1250 for Windows, ISO8850-2 for Unix and Internet-related > things. That are in wide use today, however we had much more, like Mazovia, > PESEL, DHN, Ĺwierk, Kajkowski, etc. > Note, the table does not mention only current values, but also some > historical ones - like USSR and ruble, two german countries, Czechoslovakia, > etc. > Of course there is no more Czechoslovakia, and Slovakia has Euro currency > (and my bank was first which finished conversion from former corona). > And there are of course countries have more than one language. For example > Switzerland has four languages (who know what is the fourth one?), but US has > no official language. ;-) > And or course there are timezones - US have many timezones, but even > countries within same, single timezone may have different regulations related > to DST. > BTW: as far as I know UE decided to get rid of DST, but each country has to > decide which time they will use. > A lot of curiosities. > > > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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