Le 2010-10-04 12:40, Remco Rijnders a écrit :
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 06:33:31PM +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
2010/10/4 Oliver Burger<[email protected]>:
<OT>I'm quite sure the German Postal Services (we don't have a Federal service
anymore, it's been privatized) have some guidlines as well and I'm quite sure
most companies, who do their mail using some programm or other follow those
guidlines as well.
Yes, there are guidelines, German Postal Service uses the codes
similar to international license plates for cars. Like "I" for Italy,
"F" for France, "D" for Germany, etc.
Postal codes are not standardized, each country uses their own system.
<OT> And this actually means that even sending mail out of country without
putting any sort of country designation on the envelope or package might
work! (Or at least it used to when postal workers still had a decent pay
and took pride in their work).
<OT> Yup a little off topic but still a bit informational on Mageia
naming conventions.
I have to admit that I find it funny that the OpenOffice.or group and
many of us were appalled when countries and states did not adopt the ISO
OASIS document formats. Many of us condemned others for not accepting
these international ISO document formats. It took a lot of effort to
come up with these standards along with a lot of debating.
Yet, in Mageia's case, where ISO country and language formats could have
been applied for its internal standard naming convention, the window of
opportunity for the ISO-format adoption may have been lost.
As it was pointed out earlier, it may be sadly too late to re-organise,
and the present standard in use (that of common practice) for the Mageia
group will probably remain.
I guess we will hear the decision from the Mageia "higher-ups"
eventually on this count.
BTW ... did you know that there is an ISO standard for the date format?
Hey, but that's could be for another discussion. LOL
Marc
