From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Nov 02 2005 - 07:47:11 CST
At 12:07 +0100 2005-11-02, Kent Karlsson wrote:
> > >The English name for the territory code "GB" is "United Kingdom"...
>>
>> Strictly speaking, you should say "The English name represented by
>> the territory code 'GB' is 'The United Kingdom of Great Britain and
>> Northern Ireland'.
>
>Yes, but that is not the name stored in the CLDR "database" (for en),
>nor in the 3166 MA's "database" (for English names), nor in
>draft-ltru-initial-06
>for GB.
There are official long and short names.
-- Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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