A 14:21 2002-02-24 -0500, John Cowan a �crit : >As I understand it, this request is more of a command. The only >fully stable codes in 3166 are the numeric ones.
[Alain] Not even... For example, if Qu�bec (a territory currently 3 times as big as France) eventually became a country it would have its code... and the current numeric code for Canada would designate a different territory... Would that mean even a different numeric code for the new country designated as Canada? Asking the question is kind of answering it, I believe. See the map I rebuilt (almost exact, with the data I had) of the original territory called "Canada"(*) in 1535 (if Qu�bec formed a new country and became a republic, the original Canada -- a province of the kingdom of France, then part of New France, a very small part of it which had a radius of roughly at most 150 km around the city of Qu�bec -- would no longer be part of what would remain of Canada, now a constitutional monarchy whose symbolic head of state lives in Buckingham Palace): http://iquebec.ifrance.com/cyberiel/ProvCanada.jpg Alain LaBont� Qu�bec * : Canada is an algonquian word meaning "group of cabins", "very small village" K�bec is an algonquian word meaning "where waters become narrow"
