FW: Suggestions about separation and ISO code

[Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]]

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jonas Melian [mailto:jonas.esp at googlemail.com] 
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 6:21 AM
To: tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov
Subject: Suggestions about separation and ISO code

Some suggestions:

1) To using ISO 3166 3-character country code becasuse is more readable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1

For any person it's easier to identify a country by the code of
3-letters that by the one of 2-letters.

2) Columns separated by another character different of a tab, as ':'.
So it's more readable for humans and too for the machines. And so it's
easier to maintain that table.


I comment you these suggestions because I have something of experience
with this type of tables as you can see here:
http://webda.python-hosting.com/browser/trunk/data

Greetings!
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