Package: iso-codes Version: 1.5-1 Severity: normal Hi!
compared to the official table of "ISO 4217 currency names and code elements" at http://www.iso.org/iso/support/faqs/faqs_widely_used_standards/widely_used_standards_other/currency_codes/currency_codes_list-1.htm the file iso_4217.xml needs the following corrections: 1) missing entries: <iso_4217_entry letter_code="GHS" numeric_code="936" currency_name="Ghana Cedi" /> <iso_4217_entry letter_code="GWP" numeric_code="624" currency_name="Guinea-Bissau Peso" /> <iso_4217_entry letter_code="RSD" numeric_code="941" currency_name="Serbian Dinar" /> <iso_4217_entry letter_code="SDG" numeric_code="938" currency_name="Sudanese Pound" /> <iso_4217_entry letter_code="SVC" numeric_code="222" currency_name="El Salvador Colon" /> <iso_4217_entry letter_code="UYI" numeric_code="940" currency_name="Uruguay Peso en Unidades Indexadas" /> <iso_4217_entry letter_code="VEF" numeric_code="937" currency_name="Bolivar Fuerte" /> 2) should be moved to historic section: <iso_4217_entry letter_code="GHC" numeric_code="288" currency_name="Cedi" /> <iso_4217_entry letter_code="SDD" numeric_code="736" currency_name="Sudanese Pound" /> <iso_4217_entry letter_code="VEB" numeric_code="862" currency_name="Venezuela Bolívar" /> 3) differences in name, as compared to the table in http://www.iso.org/iso/support/faqs/faqs_widely_used_standards/widely_used_standards_other/currency_codes/currency_codes_list-1.htm the table below contains differences in spelling of the currency_name in the above web page and in iso_4217.xml please consider whether you want to change the spelling in each case (some cases such as "Mexican Unidad de Inversion (UID)" seem to contain clear typo - UID should be UDI). letter_code | numeric_code | name1 | name2 -------------+--------------+-----------------------------------+----------------------------------- BDT | 050 | Taka | Bangladeshi Taka BOV | 984 | Mvdol | Bolivian Mvdol HTG | 332 | Gourde | Haitian Gourde ILS | 376 | New Israeli Sheqel | New Israeli Shekel JPY | 392 | Yen | Japanese Yen KRW | 410 | Won | South Korean Won MXV | 979 | Mexican Unidad de Inversion (UDI) | Mexican Unidad de Inversion (UID) NAD | 516 | Namibia Dollar | Namibian Dollar PLN | 985 | Zloty | Polish Zloty RON | 946 | New Leu | Romanian New Leu UGX | 800 | Uganda Shilling | Ugandan Shilling UZS | 860 | Uzbekistan Sum | Uzbekistan Som VND | 704 | Dong | Vietnamese đồng WST | 882 | Tala | Samoan Tala XDR | 960 | SDR | Special Drawing Right XFO | | Gold-Franc | Gold Franc XFU | | UIC-Franc | UIC Franc ZAR | 710 | Rand | South African Rand ZMK | 894 | Kwacha | Zambian Kwacha -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
