I have passports of the USA (very new style,
scannable, trilingual: English, French, Spanish) &
China: Taiwan (old, non-scannable, Chinese & English).
Very recent US & Taiwanese passports are scannable.
None of them shows heights or masses.
US passport applications ask for heights in feet
& inches (WOMBAT!), but no masses. Taiwanese passport
applications do not ask for heights or masses at all.
In Taiwan, heights and masses are rarely (if not
never) asked for in many official forms.
Justin JIH
� Vive le Syst�me international d'unit�s! �
"Long live the International System of Units!"
> ATTACHMENT part 2.23 message/rfc822
> From: Adrian Jadic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [USMA:9458] RE: Passports
> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:32:13 -0500
>
> As far as I know the modern syles of passport are
> scannable.
> If you noticed the customs official introduces the
> laminated page into a
> scanner. It is highly possible that the
> height/weight info is recorded in
> the code and becomes available only to the customs
> official for
> identification purposes.
>
> If this is correct the question becomes what units
> are they using when
> encoding the data.
> I would assume there is a high possibility that they
> use metric units for
> international compliance and then the computer at
> the US customs can display
> furlongs if that's what the operator understands.
>
> A.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 30 November, 2000 13:10
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:9457] RE: Passports
>
>
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:50:27 -0700, "Dennis
> Brownridge"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >US passports, also English/French bilingual, no
> longer show height or mass.
> >However, my old 1976 passport said
> >height/taille: 6 feet/pieds 0 inches/pouces
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> >
> >> I have both British (EU) and Canadian passports.
> Neither shows height (or
> >> mass).
> >>
> >> Bill Potts, CMS
> UK passports don't show heights, but the application
> form asks for
> your height in metres.
> --
> Chris KEENAN
> UK Metrication: http://www.metric.org.uk/
> UK Correspondent, US Metric Association
>
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