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1 GNU miscfiles NEWS 16 November 2010
2
3 Copyright (C) 2001, 2004,2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 See the end for copying conditions.
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6 Please send GNU miscfiles bug reports to bug-miscfiles@gnu.org.
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8
9 Version 1.5
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11 Updated the Unicode character database to 4.1.0 version of the standard.
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13 Several typos are fixed in multiple files. Other ones are expanded.
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15 The list of airports has undergone major work. Three new fields are
16 added for country, geographical subdivision of country, and major
17 cities served. The list has been extended as well.
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19
20 Version 1.4.2
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22 Updated the currency codes, removing old European currencies that were
23 replaced with Euro, adding missing currencies for countries formed out of
24 Soviet Union, updated a few other currencies that were changed or being
25 changed (Suriname dollar, Russian rouble, Bulgarian lev, ariary, ...).
26 Removed the unmaintainable subdivision (no updated source available for
27 gratis, bad format).
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29 Changed the language name for 'Sinhalese' to 'Sinhala'.
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31
32 Version 1.4.1
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34 Fixed the date in the NEWS file.
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36
37 Version 1.4
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39 Removed the GNU task list, which is no longer maintained as a single
40 file; and also removed the jargon file, which is likewise now an array
41 of html documents and generally distributed separately anyhow.
42
43 Removed the United States Constitution and Declaration of Independence
44 because they were limited to a certain country and may be considered
45 political.
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47 License worries about the Unicode data are no longer a problem due to
48 a change in the Unicode license.
49
50 Renamed 'postal.codes' to 'na.postalcodes'.
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52 Many many things updated, of course.
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54
55 Version 1.3
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57 New file in this release:
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59 bcp-index.txt
60 Index for the "Best Current Practices" internet standards documents.
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62 Many files updated; see the ChangeLog for details.
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64
65
66 Version 1.2
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68 New files in this release:
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70 unicode
71 The Unicode character set.
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73 currency
74 A table showing the currencies of the world
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76 countries
77 A table giving the official abbreviations and names of the
78 countries of the world, with their capital cities.
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80 I have dropped city codes from inter.phone, for several reasons. It
81 is very difficult to obtain accurate up-to-date information for most
82 of the countries of the world. The ITU keeps a good list of country
83 dialing codes, but within countries, things change too much for me to
84 be able to keep up, and rather than contain unfixable and wrong
85 information, I decided to only distribute what I could be confident of.
86 Many many new countries are now represented in the list, however.
87
88 The na.phone file has been carefully synced against current reality.
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90 The 5-digit zipcodes file has been dropped, since zipcodes do not map
91 to towns and cities any more; many 5-digit zipcodes now cross sound
92 boundaries.
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94 A spelling error in web2 is fixed; and the airports and propernames
95 lists have been extended slightly.
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97 The jargon file has been refreshed; the upstream author now regards
98 html as the primary form of it, so the info file has been dropped in
99 favor of html. rfc-index.txt, fyi-index.txt, std-index.txt,
100 mailinglists, tasks.texi, and cities.dat have all been refreshed from
101 their upstream sources.
102
103 François Pinard has added more to his excellent abbreviation lists.
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105
106 Version 1.1
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108 The na.phone file has been entirely rebuilt. inter.phone contains new
109 codes for the United Kingdom, several changes to reflect the changing
110 political world, and more codes for some countries (Sweden, Norway).
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112 Many new files have been added:
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114 latin1
115 like `ascii'; describing the ISO Latin-1 character set
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117 languages
118 two-letter codes for languages, from ISO 639.
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120 mailinglists
121 Description of all the public Project GNU related mailing lists.
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123 GNU-manifesto
124 The GNU Manifesto
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126 tasks.{texi,info}
127 The GNU task list.
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129 jarg400
130 The Jargon file (same as the _Hacker's_Dictionary_)
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132 abbrevs.talk, abbrevs.gen:
133 Some common abbreviations used in electronic communication
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135 rfc-index.txt, fyi-index.txt, std-index.txt
136 Indexes of internet standardization documents.
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138 cities.dat
139 geographic coordinates of many major cities
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141 postal.codes
142 postal codes for US and Mexican states and Canadian provinces
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144 us-constitution
145 The Constitution of the United States of America
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147 us-declaration
148 The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
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152 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
153 Version 1.0
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155 Initial release, comprising
156 airport, ascii, birthtoken, connectives, inter.phone, na.phone, operator,
157 propernames, web2, web2a, and zipcodes.
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161 Copyright information:
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163 Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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165 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
166 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
167 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
168 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
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170 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
171 of this document, or of portions of it,
172 under the above conditions, provided also that they
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