Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 19:30:40 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> Cc: Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trying to RTFM, having problems Message-ID: <19991118193040.A316@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <19991118182005.A316@marder-1> References: <19991117205357.A316@marder-1> <Pine.GSO.4.10.9911172332040.22038-100000@sun33> <19991118000352.A2914@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <19991118182005.A316@marder-1>
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Mark Ovens wrote:
> ISTR that the 2-letter country codes are from an ISO standard that
> defines agreed standard data about territories officially recoginized
> as independent countries - or something along those lines. Not sure
> what the ISO no. is though.
You are of course correct. It's ISO 639, and lives on a FreeBSD
system near you under /usr/share/misc. (I looked at ISO 3166 (in
/usr/share/misc too), which didn't have China as zh, but I didn't bother
looking at the other one.)
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