Hello team,
*Bottom line:*
I suggest that either we should use alpha-2/alpha-3 or we can use all of
them and make them configurable as per business requirement.
*Story:*
As per the ISO-3166 standard for country and subdivision codes. There are
three types of codes alpha-2, alpha-3 and numeric.
Different countries are using a different standard as per there
administration policy. It may be either alpha-2, alpha-3 or numeric.
In the current system, we are using mixed-format like somewhere alpha-2 and
somewhere alpha-3. We should fix this for example:
Example
India country:
ISO-3166-1 alpha-2=IN ISO-3166-1 alpha-3= IND
alpha-numeric=356
Indian state: Maharastra
ISO-3166-2 =IN-MH ISO-3166-1 alpha-3=MH
alpha-numeric= NA
In OFBiz
India:
IN(ISO-3166-1 alpha-2)
Indian state: Maharastra
MH(ISO-3166-1 alpha-3)
United States
USA(alpha-3)
United States: New York
NY(alpha-3)
Here are some reference:
https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:IN
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:IN
Kind Regards,
Vaibhav Jain
Senior Enterprise Software Engineer
*HotWax Systems*
*Enterprise open source experts*
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