RE: [OT] Corea? (was: Euro-English...)

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At 00:37 +0100 2003-12-16, Philippe Verdy wrote:

>But all this is completely out of topic of Unicode (we are more concerned
>here by language codes than by country/territory codes).

Yes, it is.

>Still, ISO 3166 or in UN codes is an incomplete standard, as it does not map
>correctly all dependant territories (see "YT" for Mayotte, which the UN
>still considers a part of Comores in its World Map updated and published in
>last August 2003, but that it also falsely documents as a French territorial
>collectivity, despite it is now a departmental collectivity, after its local
>population approved the new status which integrates it more tightly within
>France).
>
>Other missing codes in ISO 3166 and in UN statistics are:

[snip]

If you have issues with the content of ISO 3166, Philippe, take them
up with ISO TC46. You can contact the secretariat in AFNOR.

-- 
Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com

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