Subject: Re: FIPS 10-4, 10-5<br/>
Date: Jan 31, 2002 @ 20:15<br/>
Author: granthutchison (&quot;granthutchison&quot; &lt;granthutchison@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-654536654">Arif:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; TC would make the most sense if it stood for Trucial<br/>
&gt; Coast as it used to be called. <br/>
 </span></blockquote>Ah, I hadn&#39;t heard that one.<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Why would somebody take<br/>
&gt; a letter from the middle of the word.<br/>
 </span></blockquote>But there are many, many examples of this in both FIPS and ISO.<br/>
Picking a couple from several examples in the A&#39;s alone, Antigua is AG<br/>
in ISO, and Azerbaijan is AJ in FIPS. A quick search doesn&#39;t give me<br/>
any historical or local name that would fit these letters any better.<br/>
{I *was* going to use Angola, AO in both ISO and FIPS, as an example,<br/>
but it used to be called Africa Ocidental Portuguesa, which I suppose<br/>
might be the origin of the AO.)<br/>
Even when a country has a multi-word name, FIPS seems as like to pick<br/>
both digraph letters from the first word as to choose initials: Costa<br/>
Rica is CS, for instance, and Papua New Guinea is PP.<br/>
<br/>
Grant</div>