That is: The one 2-letter code that *ought* to be an alias is "GB",
with the preferred code being changed to be "UK".
Mark
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Γνῶθι σαυτόν — Θαλῆς
[For transliteration, see http://oss.software.ibm.com/cgi-bin/icu/tr]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Everson" <everson@evertype.com>
To: <ietf-languages@iana.org>; <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 08:32
Subject: Re: ISO 3166 (country codes) Maintenance Agency Web pages
move
> At 01:27 +0000 2002-02-25, John Clews wrote:
>
> >In passing, I too deplore the recent change to the 3-letter code
for
> >Romania. That would have less practical implications in IT systems
> >than any changes to the 2-letter code.
>
> The one 2-letter code that *ought* to be changed is "GB", which
> should be changed to "UK".
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