FW: [ic] Ireland (Eire) missing in country.txt

["Gert van der Spoel" <suppressed>]

 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: suppressed [mailto:interchange-
 > suppressed On Behalf Of Josh Lavin
 > Sent: zaterdag 28 juli 2007 23:12
 > To: suppressed
 > Subject: Re: [ic] Ireland (Eire) missing in country.txt
 >
 > On Jul 27, 2007, at 8:15 PM, Peter wrote:
 >
 > > On 07/27/2007 02:36 PM, Josh Lavin wrote:
 > >> Revision 1.4 of country.txt seems to have omitted "Ireland
 > >> (Eire)", the
 > >> Republic of Ireland. Was this an oversight?
 > >
 > > It looks to be there to me:
 > > <http://www.icdevgroup.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/interchange/
 > > dist/standard/products/country.txt?rev=1.4;content-
 type=text%2Fplain>
 > >
 > > IE	9	Europe	IE		Ireland	IRL	372
 >
 > I understood this to be Northern Ireland, as the Ireland (Eire) line
 > in 1.3 has the code EI:
 >
 > <http://www.icdevgroup.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/interchange/dist/standard/
 > products/country.txt?rev=1.3;content-type=text%2Fplain>
 


Executive summary:
- Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom and does not have its own
ISO country code
- Officially (the country) Ireland, is not to be referred to as Republic of
...
- The current country code list is based on the ISO-3166 country code list
- The previous version might have had some codes based on the US Federal
country code list (FIPS)
 
Below the full information for those interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland
http://publications.europa.eu/code/en/en-370100.htm
http://www.geonames.org/countries/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS_two-letter_country_codes
 
CU,
 
Gert

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