Thanks Ken,
Of course I believe you. If I trust Unicode with the numbering of
94,000+ characters, why wouldn't I trust you with a handful of country
codes? ;-)
Actually, the "their web site" referred to the ISO 3166 site. But its
good to know I can get this on the Unicode site.
tex
Kenneth Whi
Tex Texin wrote:
>>>Well, ISO 3166 does record numerical codes as well for users who want
>>>them, particularly people who don't use the Latin script.
>>>
>
> I didn't see this on their web site. Is this available online?
Snarkily, the new 3166 web site doesn't make these codes available.
An o
Tex,
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At 12:47 -0500 2002-02-28, Tex Texin wrote:
> > >Well, ISO 3166 does record numerical codes as well for users who want
>> >them, particularly people who don't use the Latin script.
>
>I didn't see this on their web site. Is this available online?
An unofficial version which may contain
errors
Thanks to you and John for replying. I was really asking a rhetorical
question but appreciate having the answer.
tex
Patrick Andries wrote:
>
> Tex Texin wrote:
>
> >
> >Plus, since we tend to end up with most codes being mnemonic, we get
> >errors when software or web developers just guess the
> > > Make 'em all digits so (almost) nobody cares about their code, and be
> > > done with it.
> >
> >Well, ISO 3166 does record numerical codes as well for users who want
> >them, particularly people who don't use the Latin script.
I didn't see this on their web site. Is this available online?
> >
> > Make 'em all digits so (almost) nobody cares about their code, and be
> > done with it.
>
>Well, ISO 3166 does record numerical codes as well for users who want
>them, particularly people who don't use the Latin script.
>
Who is No. 1?
十一ちゃん 愛加蘭馬
Tex Texin wrote:
>
>Plus, since we tend to end up with most codes being mnemonic, we get
>errors when software or web developers just guess the code will be
>menmonic. (Why is Algeria DZ?)
>
For the same reason a Qatari TV station is called Al-Djazeera : a few
islands in front of Algiers. The
Tex Texin scripsit:
> (Why is Algeria DZ?)
I don't know the specific reason, but the "Al-" part is just the
Arabic article, so DZ (3-letter version DZA) probably refers to
what is written "g" in English and French.
>
> Make 'em all digits so (almost) nobody cares about their code, and be
> don
And if nothing else, this long thread shows that when we decide to do
this right we shouldn't use an alphabetic scheme.
The tendency to desire a "vanity" code that is both mnemonic and has
only a positive association (if any) is too destabilizing. Not to
mention it potentially irritates all the p
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