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< http://www3.who.int/whosis/gis/salb/codes_complete/\
PRT_SALB_table.xls >, one of the many documents linked at
< http://www3.who.int/whosis/gis/salb/salb_coding.htm >
includes the following note:

> Following the suggestion of the NMA, the letters of
> administrative units names containg accents have been
> changed as follows:
>
> ã became a, ç became c, ê became e, â became a in order
> to follow the specifications of the project.

The most anedoctical case is "Mação", which becames "Macao",
quite easy to confuse with the English name of a different
(former) portuguese territory.

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