Thanks Ken,
Of course I believe you. If I trust Unicode with the numbering of
94,000+ characters, why wouldn't I trust you with a handful of country
codes? ;-)
Actually, the "their web site" referred to the ISO 3166 site. But its
good to know I can get this on the Unicode site.
tex
Kenneth Whistler wrote:
> > > > > Make 'em all digits so (almost) nobody cares about their code, and be
> > > > > done with it.
> > > >
> > > >Well, ISO 3166 does record numerical codes as well for users who want
> > > >them, particularly people who don't use the Latin script.
> >
> > I didn't see this on their web site. Is this available online?
>
> Go to:
>
> http://www.unicode.org/unicode/onlinedat/countries.html
>
> !!
>
> And if you don't believe us, click on the "UN" link at the head
> of the Numeric-3 column, to get to the horse's mouth:
>
> http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/methods/m49alpha.htm
>
> --Ken
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