ISO 3166 (GB): United Kingdom
Hello, the attached corrects the ISO 3166 short name from "Britain (UK)" to "United Kingdom". Andreas -- Andreas Stieger <astieger@suse.com> Project Manager Security SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
On Tue, 28 Feb 2017, Andreas Stieger wrote:
Hello,
the attached corrects the ISO 3166 short name from "Britain (UK)" to "United Kingdom".
The link at the top of iso3166.tab (http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/country_codes/updates_on_iso_3166.htm) is a 404 now too. It probably should be https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#search or something. That also suggests, that "GB" should really be "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)" as per https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:GB — but that's a bit long :-) I do agree that this patch should be applied. cheers, Derick -- https://derickrethans.nl | https://xdebug.org | https://dram.io Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: https://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug
On 02/28/2017 05:21 AM, Derick Rethans wrote:
The link at the top of iso3166.tab (http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/country_codes/updates_on_iso_3166.htm) is a 404 now too. It probably should be https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#search or something.
Thanks for reporting that. The ISO reorganized its website and we had a couple of dead or obsolete links. I fixed it by installing the attached proposed patch. I've already prepared release 2017a so this fix should appear in the release after 2017a.
...this fix should appear in the release after 2017a.
Leaving open the possibility that the referenced release will be 2018a. Well, we can hope.-) @dashdashado On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
On 02/28/2017 05:21 AM, Derick Rethans wrote:
The link at the top of iso3166.tab (http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/country_codes/updates _on_iso_3166.htm) is a 404 now too. It probably should be https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#search or something.
Thanks for reporting that. The ISO reorganized its website and we had a couple of dead or obsolete links. I fixed it by installing the attached proposed patch. I've already prepared release 2017a so this fix should appear in the release after 2017a.
On 28/02/17 13:21, Derick Rethans wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2017, Andreas Stieger wrote:
Hello,
the attached corrects the ISO 3166 short name from "Britain (UK)" to "United Kingdom". The link at the top of iso3166.tab (http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/country_codes/updates_on_iso_3166.htm) is a 404 now too. It probably should be https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#search or something.
That also suggests, that "GB" should really be "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)" as per https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:GB — but that's a bit long :-)
I do agree that this patch should be applied.
This came up a little while ago, possibly under a slightly different guise, but as someone born and living in The United Kingdom of Great Britain and North Ireland I'm quite happy with what's there at the moment. "United Kingdom" is not really any more correct than "Britain" and I've used both when filling out forms. There's never going to be a good single name for the place and iso3166.tab's name is as good as any. Amusingly, if you search for "GB" in https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#search the "English short name" is truncated part way through the "N" of "Northern". jch
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Andreas Stieger -
Arthur David Olson -
Derick Rethans -
John Haxby -
Paul Eggert