ISO 3166 (country codes) Maintenance Agency Web pages move

[J M Sykes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Everson" <everson@evertype.com>
To: <ietf-languages@iana.org>; <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: ISO 3166 (country codes) Maintenance Agency Web pages move


> At 01:27 +0000 2002-02-25, John Clews wrote:
> 
> >In passing, I too deplore the recent change to the 3-letter code for
> >Romania. That would have less practical implications in IT systems
> >than any changes to the 2-letter code.
> 
> The one 2-letter code that *ought* to be changed is "GB", which 
> should be changed to "UK".
> -- 
> Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
> 
I'll strenuously support that!

But what would we do with GBR?

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