Bug#239092: ITP: mozilla-thunderbird-locale-uk -- Mozilla Thunderbird Ukrainian Language/Region Package
On Monday, March 22, 2004 1:48 PM, Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>
wrote:
> * Neil McGovern (maulkin@halon.org.uk) [040322 14:40]:
>> On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 01:36:20PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
>>> * Neil McGovern (maulkin@halon.org.uk) [040322 13:10]:
>>>> Britian == GB
>>>> Ukraine == UK
>>>>
>>>> Acording to the ISO codes anyway.
[...]
> Sorry, but the claim about ISO is wrong. According to ISO 3166
>
http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/list
-en1-semic.txt
> Ukraine is UA, and United Kingdom is GB (and as far as I know the
> _only_ country-TLD not the same as the ISO-name).
You're comparing two different ISO standards (and mixing the two in ways
that don't work), afaics. ISO3166 covers territory and country names,
whereas ISO639-2 relates to language (and therefore locale) names.
The ISO369-[12] decoding list
(http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/englangn.html) lists Ukranian as UA.
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The ISO3166 decoding table
(http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/iso
_3166-1_decoding_table.html) lists `UK' as `exceptionally reserved'.
As noted in
http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/04background-on-iso-3166/i
so3166-1-and-ccTLDs.html there are currently five ccTLDs that do not match
the ISO3166 codes for the area in question. They /are/ all, however,
`exceptionally reserved' by ISO.
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Adam
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