Hi On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 04:27:55PM +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
Michael Niedermayer wrote:
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 09:32:48AM +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
Michael Niedermayer wrote:
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 03:36:34PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote: [...]
So ISO 3166 is out, too?
I'm against 2-letter codes. The number of languages is way too large for these codes to be remotely sufficient.
ISO 3166 is about country codes and about half of the codes from the 2 letter codespace seem to be used or reserved in some way ...
But should three-letter country codes be allowed?
i dont know, but i would prefer if either 2 or 3 letter codes would be used but not both ...
Each 3-letter code has a corresponding 2-letter code, and I just noticed that ISO doesn't publish the 3-letter codes for free, so I think country codes should use the 2-letter form.
iam not arguing against that but http://www.davros.org/misc/iso3166.html amongth others lists the 3 letter codes [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. -- Aristotle