Good grief Tim, you are over-analysing way too much. I've seen UKP used
before, it hasn't been invented to make a political stand.
Taking your logic a stage further... When you install Windows it asks
you for configuration information. Country options include "United
Kingdom" not "Great Britain". Are Microsoft making a political statement
about Northern Ireland with their Windows Installation procedure? Using
the logic you provide above, you'd have to conclude they are.
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Stephen Kellett
Object Media Limited http://www.objmedia.demon.co.uk
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But someone must have invented it for some reason.
It makes no sense to go round inventing currency codes when there are
already perfectly good standard ones - write an invented private one of your
own on a bank document, for example, and it won't work. I guess people do
rather less of this in everyday life now that cash cards have replaced
Eurocheques, so not everybody carries the leaflet with the codes in their
wallet any more, but the things are still in common enough usage that one
can be expected to know the code for one's own currency!
So, despite the existence of "GBP" which has unambiguous meaning worldwide
on any documents written in any language, someone goes and invents "UKP",
which on the day they invented it meant nothing to anybody other than
themselves. Why??
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Tim Ward - posting as an individual unless otherwise clear
Brett Ward Ltd - www.brettward.co.uk
Cambridge Accommodation Notice Board - www.brettward.co.uk/canb
Cambridge City Councillor
Because they can.
Because they want to.
I have done it. So what ? Not everyone is au-fait or cares about ISO
codes anyhow, including some of the banks judging by the state of
their FX software.
Dave
[Mild, off-topic rant]
The American way to cut through the confusion is to regard everything in
this region as UK, except that quite a lot of them (unlike some English
people) know that the Republic of Ireland is a separate state!
Pity the people living in the Isle of Man (where I lived once) or in the
States of Guernsey or the States of Jersey. They never get a mention in
those drop-down lists, even though each one of them has a top-level country
domain on the Internet.
Pity, also, the sizeable part of NI's population (and not only Republicans)
that does, of course, live in the UK but hates to have to say so. The same
goes for many Scots and Welsh and, indeed, an increasing number of English
residents.
What, with our partly-devolved (dis)United Kingdom, our Countries, Provinces
and Principalities, our Dependent Territories, etc., with a multitude of
flags (for land and sea) to go with them, Britain rules the world in
constitutional confusion. Many Britons seem to be trying to take the No.1
International Language down the same route, as well.
Peter.
On 28 Sep 2003 17:42:49 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@ukmisc.org.uk (Huge) wrote:
Erm, you have seen
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-international/2003JulSep/0213
etc. and the original announcements, the ISO are considering licence
fees for ISO 4217.
Jim.
Bizarre though it sounds, the relevant sub-vomittee (a typo, but too
appropriate to correct) of ISO *has* made an ill-judged and (hopefully)
ill-phrased pronouncement about collecting "database publishing charges"
on the *use* of (maybe only complete and up-to-date collections of?)
two-letter country codes. Yes, like in geographical top-level domains.
Yes, like in MIME tags for languages on web pages.
Clue-by-fours are being vigorously administered by the W3C, ICANN, and
other bodies representing (some aspects of) the interests of Net users.
There's probably a suitably incredulous article by John Leyden at
theregister.co.uk by now...
Just remember - in international standardisation bodies as in party
politics, just because an idea is patently loony on its face doesn't
mean it won't get proposed in all apparent seriousness...
Stefek, driftin' along, aiming as always to both entertain and inform ;-)
News only guarantees transmission of 7 bit ASCII characters. The pound
sign is an 8-bit ASCII character and will be filtered out by some news
servers. The same goes for all those idiots that think it's clever to
put characters from the extended Windows character set into their posts.
Some servers will strip the characters and replace them with blanks,
some sill simply drop that particular post on the floor.
Since you're a gardener, the best response is probably "there, there,
don't you worry it's a bit technical."
"..........Some servers will strip the Some servers will strip the
characters and replace them with blanks,
some sill simply drop that particular post on the floor.
Since you're a gardener, the best response is probably "there, there,
don't you worry it's a bit technical."
Pity they don't strip sarcastic characters, especially those that cant even
spell but rely totally on spell checker........."some sill simply" Must be
nice to be so intelligent.
And for your information to be a modern "Gardener " you have to be a
builder, a plumber, a gas fitter, a chemist, a botanist, an entomologist and
be willing to work up to 15 hours a day in season and 7 days a week.
even
be
Er, David, be careful.
You omitted an apostrophe in "can't". Also, if referring to living people
you'd have been better saying, "those who" rather than "those that".
Anyone can make a typo.
Mary
That's a misquote, I didn't type "Some servers will strip the" twice. My
typo is noted.
"can't" and that IMO is a rather more serious error than a typo. I don't
use a spell checker, your clairvoyance appears to be on the wane.
But you don't have to be particularly good at any of those trades. Nor
particularly informed before going off on a rant, it seems. Oh well, off
you go Dirty Fingered Sid, back to pricking out behind the potting shed.
Of course, I side with you against the previous poster's condescending
remark, but...
...if they did, your paragraph would have disappeared, and...
especially those that cant even
be
...classing simple typing errors as spelling mistakes is a bit over the top,
especially as you dropped an apostrophe in "can't".
and
I'm the novice gardener in our house (I found this post in uk.consultants)
and I am genuinely in awe of my partner's knowledge of plants and "green
fingers". Let's just hope that gardening doesn't become the "new plumbing",
with thousands of disillusioned unemployed taking a six week course and
foisting themselves, unprepared, upon the public!
Peter.
Easy test to spot the fakes - real plant people don't use the common
names. Latin names all the time, unless you ask them what they are
talking about. My girlfriend is garden designer, I have no idea what she
is talking about half the time - bit like her comments about me and
comfusers (thats "computer" to you)..
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Stephen Kellett
Object Media Limited http://www.objmedia.demon.co.uk
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