David Garamond wrote:

> Helen Borrie wrote:
>
>>That was then and now is now. Country codes are now much more dynamic than
>>they used to be; and there are two standards, not one. So I maintain my
>>country tables with a generator and hold both IATA and CCCIT country codes,
>
> I'm not aware of country codes standard apart from ISO 3166. By "CCCIT"
> do you mean CCITT/ITU-T international calling code?

Ah, I should've googled a bit more. ITU-T indeed has a standard for
country codes, E.212. Each country is identified with a 3-digit number.
ISO also has a 3-digit version of country codes.

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dave