FW: [ic] Ireland (Eire) missing in country.txt
Gert van der Spoel
gert at 3edge.com
Sun Jul 29 16:07:08 EDT 2007
> -----Original Message-----
> From: interchange-users-bounces at icdevgroup.org [mailto:interchange-
> users-bounces at icdevgroup.org] On Behalf Of Josh Lavin
> Sent: zaterdag 28 juli 2007 23:12
> To: interchange-users at icdevgroup.org
> 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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