Double
tut-tut. we are reviewing 10-5 now. We will integrate the digraphs
into ours after review. What joy. what rapture in being a
bureaucrat! It would seem a simple matter to switch to the UN trigraphs,
which I agree are far more intelligible, but there are all sorts of gummint
(government) databases that use the digraphs and the resistance to change is
fierce. Ray
Ray:
> At the State Department
>
website (www.state.gov) we use the digraphs established by the US
Board
on
> Geographic names, which, granted are a little obscure (LO
for
Slovenia, EZ
> for the Czech Republic, TC for UAE, BH for Belize)
Tut tut. The State Department doesn't seem to have been keeping
up
with the FIPS 10-4 Publication Change Notices at
http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/fips/fips_files.html
Although
the State Department website does give TC as the FIPS
diagraph for the UAE,
this code was changed to AE by the first
Publication Change Notice on 1 Dec
1998.
> Where do you guys come up with
> your digraphs?
Perhaps we should use the UN trigraph system?
I do find the digraphs
confusing - there have been a couple of
occasions recently when everyone
has been communicating is a sort of
ISO/FIPS hybrid, the meaning of which
was only obvious from context.
So I, too, would prefer the trigraphs
because it's usually obvious to
the reader what country is being indicated,
without looking up a
table. But imagine the confusion if we mix tri- and
di-graphs! Do
those six letters refer to a digraph tripoint or a trigraph
border?
Aaaaaargh.
(For anyone interested in the ludicrous number of
different country
codes available, I uploaded a summary to the Files area a
while back.)
Grant
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