Re: Any connection between gnome-applets-locations and iso codes

[Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh farsiweb info>]

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 20:52, Christian Rose wrote:
> The ISO domains in the Translation Project are as follows (from my
> interpretation):
> 
> 	iso_3166	names of countries
> 	iso_3166_1	full official names of countries(?)
> 	iso_3166_2	names of regions in countries
> 	iso_3166_3	full official names of countries(?)
> 	iso_4217	names of currencies
> 	iso_639		names of languages

You are correct in interpretation of that, but you're wondering what is
the difference between iso_3166_1 and iso_3166_3? The former is for
current countries, the latter is for previous countries (like Soviet
Union, or Yugoslavia).

roozbeh