Attention ! You've only isted the catalog entry, but not the actua reference http://www.boutique.afnor.org/norme/xp-z44-002/code-pour-la-representation-des-noms-de-pays-historiques/article/748631/fa046190
Which gives information about context of use (mainly for bibliographic purpose, not for linguistic/terminologic purpose) and with a limited timeframe (starting from 1815 up to but excluding current countries encoced in ISO 3166-1 and their divisions). The standard was not even considered for international use, each national library may have its own classification system, notably for important legislation texts still applicable (such as international treaties or treaties of union and ratifiation instruments thar were used for creating or modifyng the territory of the current country, or about countries for which another third party country is maintaining an official copy in its official archives, a copy that can be enforced in front of existing international courts; but that will be kept for an indefinite time unless all ratifying parties have agreed to obsolete these texts). And there are a lot of very old treties or bilateral agreements around the world which are still enforcable even if the countries have changed their poitical regime and a successor was designated (e.g. there are old treaties from the Kingdom of France ratified and deposited in other EUropean countries with specific clauses which are against the standard national law but still applicable in their area; and it was not in the interest of the Republic after the revolution to cancel these treaties with the risk of splitting the territory; under national rules the Constitution protects all international treaties ratified by France of whose the French Republic is recognized as a successor, sometimes with a shared succession in some regions). These old enforcable texts are very complex to classify and it's normal for a country to organize this with a national standard for its official libraries. Beside this, those countries also have their own team of historians in public research departments and universities and there are needs also for genealogists for today's private successions and it's important of being able to locate and retrieve these old documents. 2014-11-01 18:28 GMT+01:00 Doug Ewell <[email protected]>: > Jörg Knappen <jknappen at web dot de> wrote: > > There was a French experimental standard, AFNOR XP Z 44-002, "Code for the > representation of names of historical countries" (August 1997), that seems > like it might be what you are looking for: > > http://www.freestd.us/soft2/638771.htm > > I had heard that this standard was withdrawn, but I can't be sure about > that. > > Richard Wordingham <richard dot wordingham at ntlworld dot com> replied to > a reply: > > How is ths related to Unicode ? >>> >> >> One possibility is though the Regional Indicators, but they are >> defined by the unstable ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes. >> > > ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code elements, once withdrawn, are not reused for 50 > years. That seems relatively stable to me. > > -- > Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, USA | http://ewellic.org > _______________________________________________ > Unicode mailing list > [email protected] > http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode >
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