On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 08:51:25PM +0300, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > 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)...
Please have a look at KDE (run kcontrol, select 'Regional & accessibility', then 'Country/Region & Language'), they use real short names: Macedonia and Taiwan in these particular cases. Their list looks much smarter than the UN one. This does not mean that iso-codes is useless, it may contain more informations (like real short country/region names) and developers could ddecide which list to use depending on their context. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
