- From: Misha Wolf <misha.wolf@reuters.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 12:59:10 +0000 (GMT)
- To: www international <www-international@w3.org>, Unicode Discussion <unicode@unicode.org>
John Clews wrote: > >Which standards bodies, and according to which standards/maintenance >agencies are these allocated? I understood that ISO 3166 (which is >the source of all other currency codes) does not include the 2-letter >combination EU, and that the responsible committee (ISO/TC46/WG2, >directly under ISO/TC46) and the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency voted >AGAINST including codes for the European Union and other >international organizations in this standard. ISO 3166 is not the source of currency codes. ISO 4217 is. It is true that most currency codes allocated by ISO 4217 have a ISO 3166 country code as their first two characters. This is not, however, universally so. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Misha Wolf Email: misha.wolf@reuters.com 85 Fleet Street Standards Manager Voice: +44 171 542 6722 London EC4P 4AJ Reuters Limited Fax : +44 171 542 8314 UK --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12th International Unicode Conference, 8-9 Apr 1998, Tokyo, www.unicode.org 7th World Wide Web Conference, 14-18 Apr 1998, Brisbane, www7.conf.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Reuters Ltd.
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