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				<title>ISO3 (alpha3) for Romania (Rumänien)</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Hello,

different sources, different codes for romania:

ROU from geonames countries.txt rev 1.3
ROM from a shapefile as gmi_cntry

Which one is the correct one?

TIA,

   Frank

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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:36:54]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:ISO3 (alpha3) for Romania (Rumänien)</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Hi Frank

Both are correct. ROU is the ISO country code and ROM the country code used by the  International Olympic Committee (IOC).  I guess we should add the IOC country codes to the list : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IOC_country_codes

Regards

Marc]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:11:04]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:ISO3 (alpha3) for Romania (Rumänien)</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ ROU is the <b>current</b> ISO code for Romania.  It was changed from ROM a few years ago.]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:41:25]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Hello Marc and anonymous,

i think anomymous is right, ROM seems the older fips code, since i found some other older codes (and boundaries) after that.

It seems i have to look for an actual world-amd0-shape file...

Thanks anyway.

Frank]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:51:58]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:ISO3 (alpha3) for Romania (Rumänien)</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Yes anonymous is right.

I found some more information. 

The ISO newletter 2002-02-01 , "Change of the alpha-3 Code element for Romania from ROM to ROU following a request of the Government of Romania." : http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/03updates-on-iso-3166/nlv3-rou.html

And on unicode.org also another country code change :

The Alpha-2 and 3 codes for East Timor were changed from TP and TMP to TL and TLS on May 20, 2002. For more information see:
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/03updates-on-iso-3166/nlv5e-tl.html

Marc]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:22:11]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:ISO3 (alpha3) for Romania (Rumänien)</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ A complement on that story. Romania government asked the change from "ROM" to "ROU" to avoid any (voluntary or not) confusion between Romanians and Gipsies, usually called "Rom" throughout Europe - or any of the more or less derogatory variants (in France you will hear e.g. "Romas", "Romanichels", "Manouches" etc ...)
This is a very sensitive cultural/linguistic issue, actually. 
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma_people]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:55:47]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:ISO3 (alpha3) for Romania (Rumänien)</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Hi,

concerning IoC codes.. This page contains useful information, for anyone interested..
http://www.statoids.com/wab.html

Sami Dalouche]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 25 Oct 2006 22:45:30]]> GMT</pubDate>
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