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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Add me to the chorus: let’s skip this one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Please note: nothing in BCP 47 obligates us to track the names
assigned by any of the ISO standards. Only their code assignments are
obligatory. I’m glad that Doug notes these things, though, since occasionally
there may be a change that is important to capture.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Addison<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Addison Phillips<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Globalization Architect -- Lab126</span><span style='font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Internationalization is not a feature.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>It is an architecture.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no
[mailto:ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark Davis<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 19, 2009 7:58 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> John Cowan<br>
<b>Cc:</b> ietf-languages@iana.org; Doug Ewell<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: ISO 3166-1 change in name of Venezuela<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>agreed<br>
<br clear=all>
Mark<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 06:42, John Cowan <<a
href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org">cowan@ccil.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Doug Ewell scripsit:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>> ISO 3166-1 has recently
changed the short name of Venezuela to<br>
> "Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of", thereby matching the long
name.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>All hail Simon Bolivar, but I don't think it's necessary for
us to<br>
follow suit.<br>
<span style='color:#888888'><br>
--<br>
John Cowan
<a href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org">cowan@ccil.org</a><br>
<a href="http://www.ccil.org/%7Ecowan"
target="_blank">http://www.ccil.org/~cowan</a><br>
Humpty Dump Dublin squeaks through his norse<br>
Humpty Dump Dublin hath
a horrible vorse<br>
But for all his kinks English / And his irismanx brogues<br>
Humpty Dump Dublin's
grandada of all rogues. --Cousin James</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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