Jörg Luther@Erwin: Same game - czech (1989) is not the same as czech (1993). The problem arises from Scalemates using ISO 3166 Alpha-2 codes, some of which were "reused" in ISO 3166: Czechoslovakia is an excellent example. It was CS, split up 1993 into CZ and SK, and CS went to "Serbia and Montenegro", which 2006 split up into RS and ME, with CS not longer used (at least until now). Official country code for former Czechoslovakia now is CSHH (ISO 3166/3).
A possible partial solution would be to change to ISO 3166 Alpha-3 codes, which don't get changed. Czechoslowakia=CSK, Czech Republic=CZE, Slowakia=SVK. Anyway, ISO 3166 codes are only available for states that existed 1974 or later. There are no ISO 3166 codes for earlier countries. I abolutely agree with you in so far as Scalemates says "Country code is 2 digit ISO code." and there never has been an ISO 3166 code for the Deutsches Reich. There only is one for Germany.
In my opinion, as Scalemates flags out decal options with these codes, as a matter of fact DE would be totally sufficent for this purpose, wether let's say a plane belongs to Kaiserliche Fliegertruppe in 1917, Luftwaffe in 1936 or Bundesluftwaffe in 1961. The reason: The next field is "Organisation", and one following is "Year", so it's dead clear that DE-Luftwaffe-1936 is something different than DE-Luftwaffe-1961 or DE-Kaiserl.Fliegertruppe-1917.
But that's a detail that doesn't solve the problem with countries splitting up like Czechoslovakia or the USSR, or - even worse - with follow-up countries again splitting up as in former Yugoslavia. The only way to get a line in there is in my opinion to change from ISO 3166 Alpha-2 to Alpha-3.
13 July 2014, 13:26