On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 01:50, Munzir Taha wrote: > Can we say this is the standard?
A standard should have been approved by a certain standards body that represents most of the players. Like ISO, national standard bodies, or one of the several industry consortiums. > Or do you mean > something put by governmental agencies? If any one here knows about such > standards and who define them please talk. Something by governmental agencies is the thing. There has also been a trans-Arab standards body ones, who did some interesting work on creating two-letter Arabic codes for countries of the world. I can't remember the name, but I believe it is not active anymore. For individual countries' standardization organizations, please see <http://www.iso.org/iso/en/aboutiso/isomembers/MemberCountryList.MemberCountryList>. For example, Algeria's is: Institut algÃrien de normalisation 5 et 7 rue Abou Hamou Moussa (ex-rue Daguerre) B.P. 104 R.P DZ-Alger Tel: +213 21 64 20 75 Fax: +213 21 64 17 61 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.ianor.org.dz roozbeh _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
