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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] IRC community channels - need a ruling from the board</H1>
<B>Marc Paré</B>
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<I>Tue Oct 5 15:30:58 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>Le 2010-10-05 09:23, Frederic Janssens a écrit :
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</I>><i> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 15:07, Marc Paré <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">marc at marcpare.com</A>
</I>><i> <mailto:<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">marc at marcpare.com</A>>> wrote:
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</I>><i> Northern Ireland is NOT part of Ireland, it is part of the UK.
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</I>><i> I know that Wikipedia is not always a trusted source of
</I>><i> information, but this page is pretty accurate:
</I>><i>
</I>><i> <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland</A>
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</I>><i> Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on one's point of view, by
</I>><i> international convention (meaning that all parties were in agreement
</I>><i> at the time of signing) Ireland's country code is IE. Ireland was
</I>><i> part of this agreement.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Marc
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</I>><i> I think you keep confusing Ireland as a country and Ireland as
</I>><i> geographical island. Ireland the country does not cover all of Ireland
</I>><i> the geographical island.
</I>><i> Ireland's country code is IE but does not apply to the whole of Ireland
</I>><i> the geographical island. <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland</A>
</I>><i> is not part of
</I>><i> IE but of UK.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> --
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</I>><i> Frederic
</I>
But you are speaking on a geographical/physical term which is what we
are not. We are speaking of country-code and language-code. There could
be an international organization codifying the geographical/physical
code of land masses --- I don't know.
But this is not what we are talking about.
Marc
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