[OT] Europe vs. European Union (was: Re: Unicode Emoji 5.0 characters now final)

[philip chastney]

ahem -- as I expect you're well aware, it's the United Kingdon that's opting to quit the EU, and England is only a part of the United Kingdom

... and the United Kingdon, in turn, only covers part of the British Isles

/phil

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On Fri, 31/3/17, Manuel Strehl <boldewyn at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [OT] Europe vs. European Union (was: Re: Unicode Emoji 5.0 characters now final)
 To: "Unicode Mailing List" <unicode at unicode.org>
 Date: Friday, 31 March, 2017, 7:10 AM
 
 Maybe
 I'm missing context, but what is the specific problem of
 those lists differing?
 
 The
 EU and Europe _are_ two different things. The United States
 of America similarly do not include the whole of America,
 despite the name.
 
 And
 Norway and Switzerland and some others (incl. soon England)
 might not be too happy with either institution to make a
 forced move to unify those lists.
 
 –Manuel
 
 2017-03-30 23:39 GMT+02:00
 Doug Ewell <doug at ewellic.org>:
 The UN
 "M49 Standard" (that's how they're styling
 it now; I guess we
 
 should stop writing "M.49") assigns a code element
 for each "country or
 
 area" and groups these into "geographical
 regions."
 
 
 
 To find the "countries or areas" included within
 code element 150 for
 
 "Europe," simply visit https://unstats.un.org/unsd/
 methodology/m49/ ,
 
 select Geographic Regions from the menu at the left, and
 expand the
 
 entries for Europe and its four subregions. The lists are
 available in
 
 six languages, including French.
 
 
 
 To find the countries that make up the European Union at any
 given
 
 moment, visit http://europa.eu/european-
 union/about-eu/countries_fr (or
 
 similar for other EU languages). As is well known, this list
 has changed
 
 in the past and will change in the future.
 
 
 
 The point is that UNSD's definition of Europe and the
 roster of the
 
 European Union are different lists, and no attempt is made
 by either
 
 organization to make these lists identical or to explain or
 justify
 
 differences.
 
 
 
 --
 
 Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org