On Sunday 04 April 2004 10:38, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > Agreed the "official short names" are ugly ; > (http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code >-lists/list-en1.html) eg. "LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC", > "LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA" for those countries normally called "Laos" > and "Libya". However, sometimes the short version is the problem > too: eg. do we allow > "MACEDONIA, THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF", to be shortened to > "Macedonia"? I'm sure the Greeks won't agree to that ...
they certainly won't (and I'm not speaking about myself, I believe that this issue has been greatly mishandled by all sides anyway)... Although I think Taiwan's is a different case... Konstantinos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
