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diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/Locale/Country.pod b/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/Locale/Country.pod index ae36beb6014..e21726fd0d4 100644 --- a/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/Locale/Country.pod +++ b/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/Locale/Country.pod @@ -70,6 +70,23 @@ The IANA is responsible for delegating management of the top level country domains. The country domains are the two-letter (lowercase) codes from ISO 3166 with a few other additions. +=item B<un-alpha-3, LOCALE_CODE_UN_ALPHA_3> + +=item B<un-numeric, LOCALE_CODE_UN_NUMERIC> + +The UN maintains a list of codes that is similar, but not identical, to the +standard ISO 3166 lists. They maintain a 3-letter code (similar to alpha-3) +and a numeric code (similar to numeric). + +=item B<genc-alpha-2, LOCALE_CODE_GENC_ALPHA_2> + +=item B<genc-alpha-3, LOCALE_CODE_GENC_ALPHA_3> + +=item B<genc-numeric, LOCALE_CODE_GENC_NUMERIC> + +The GENC codes are the US Government codes that replace the FIPS-11 codes. +They are based on, but not identical to the standard ISO 3166 lists. + =back NOTE: As of version 3.27, the FIPS code set is no longer supported. See the @@ -143,12 +160,15 @@ Official source of the top-level domain names. =item L<http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49alpha.htm> -The source of the official ISO 3166-1 three-letter codes and -three-digit codes. +The source of the UN codes. + +Previously, this table was treated as a source of the ISO 3166 data, +but I found that the table was incomplete, so I stopped using it. +Later, it was added back in as it's own list of codes. + +=item L<https://nsgreg.nga.mil/genc/discovery> -For some reason, this table is incomplete! Several countries are -missing from it, and I cannot find them anywhere on the UN site. I -no longer use this as a source of data. +The source of the GENC codes. =item L<https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/appendix/print_appendix-d.html> @@ -174,7 +194,7 @@ Currently maintained by Sullivan Beck (sbeck@cpan.org). Copyright (c) 1997-2001 Canon Research Centre Europe (CRE). Copyright (c) 2001-2010 Neil Bowers - Copyright (c) 2010-2015 Sullivan Beck + Copyright (c) 2010-2016 Sullivan Beck This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. |