South Africa has recently changed its international selection code from 09 to 00 to align with international practice. By international select code we mean the code preceding an international telephone number ie before the country code. eg 09 + 1 for USA becomes 00 + 1.
Press release indicating the change as of 16 Jan 2007 http://www.telkom.co.za/common/aboutus/mediacentre/pressrelease/articles/article_873.html
Created attachment 1732 [details] Change intl_select from 09 to 00
Changed in cvs.
Subject: Bug 4411 CVSROOT: /cvs/glibc Module name: libc Branch: glibc-2_5-branch Changes by: jakub@sourceware.org 2007-07-12 15:11:15 Modified files: localedata : ChangeLog localedata/locales: en_ZA Log message: 2007-04-24 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> [BZ #4411] * locales/en_ZA: Update int_select. Patch by Dwayne Bailey <dwayne@translate.org.za>. Patches: http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc/localedata/ChangeLog.diff?cvsroot=glibc&only_with_tag=glibc-2_5-branch&r1=1.603.2.7&r2=1.603.2.8 http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc/localedata/locales/en_ZA.diff?cvsroot=glibc&only_with_tag=glibc-2_5-branch&r1=1.10&r2=1.10.2.1
Verified on Fedora 7 with glibc 2.6