eeu.cal — Country/Continent Name Catalog

Status: ✅ Cracked · 23.3 KB · NOT_COMPRESSED — every field explained, validated exhaustively.

A multi-language name catalog for countries (and "Europe" as a continent), cross-referenced against both eeu.ctr (country identity) and eeu.abc (which language each name is in). Previously entirely unexamined — only a candidate 48-byte record size had been derived from the shared header fields (see Header Trailer Fields), not the content.

Record format

94-byte header (record count 484 read straight off its own header field), then exactly 484 fixed 48-byte records — validated exhaustively: every one of the 35 distinct groups was inspected in full, not sampled.

uint16 LE  country_id
uint8      is_continent
uint8      lang_index
bytes[40]  name           -- NUL-padded, natural word order
bytes[4]   0xFFFFFFFF     -- constant on all 484 records

country_id — alphabetical rank by ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code

0 is reserved for 2 "Europe" pseudo-entries (EUROPE/ЕВРОПА), not tied to any real eeu.ctr row. 1–34 are the disc's 34 unique alpha-3 codes (eeu.ctr has 35 rows but lists Russia twice — once transliterated, once in Cyrillic, both RUS) in exactly alphabetical order:

ID	Code	Country	ID	Code	Country
1	ALB	Albania	18	LTU	Lithuania
2	AUT	Austria	19	LVA	Latvia
3	BGR	Bulgaria	20	MDA	Moldova
4	BIH	Bosnia and Herzegovina	21	MKD	North Macedonia
5	BLR	Belarus	22	MNE	Montenegro
6	CHE	Switzerland	23	NOR	Norway
7	CZE	Czechia	24	POL	Poland
8	DEU	Germany	25	ROU	Romania
9	DNK	Denmark	26	RUS	Russia
10	EST	Estonia	27	SMR	San Marino
11	FIN	Finland	28	SRB	Serbia
12	GRC	Greece	29	SVK	Slovakia
13	HRV	Croatia	30	SVN	Slovenia
14	HUN	Hungary	31	SWE	Sweden
15	ITA	Italy	32	TUR	Turkey
16	KOS	Kosovo	33	UKR	Ukraine
17	LIE	Liechtenstein	34	VAT	Vatican City

This is a third, independent country numbering on this disc — distinct from both eeu.ctr's own arbitrary row order (Switzerland is row 0 there) and eeu.cty's empirically-resolved country_tag field (eeu.cty, e.g. 375 for Albania). Found by directly sorting eeu.ctr's already-cracked alpha-3 field and comparing against the observed groups — no new empirical matching needed this time.

Every name in every one of the 35 groups was checked and is a genuine real-world name for that exact country/continent in some real language. Group 8 (Germany) has 13 entries: ALEMANHA (Portuguese), ALEMANIA (Spanish), ALLEMAGNE (French), ALMANYA (Turkish), DEUTSCHLAND (German), DUITSLAND (Dutch), GERMANIA (Italian), GERMANIYA (transliterated), GERMANY (English), NEMECKO/NĚMECKO (Slovak/Czech), NIEMCY (Polish), TYSKLAND (Scandinavian). Group 21 (North Macedonia) alone has 40 entries, reflecting that country's real historical naming dispute — many literally spell out "former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" in different languages (FORMER YUGOSLAV REP.OF MACEDONIA, EHEMALIGE JUGOSLAW.REP.MAZEDONIEN, B.JUGOSLOWIANSKA REPUB.MACEDONII, ...).

lang_index — matches eeu.abc's own per-language index

Confirmed directly against eeu.abc's language table: lang_index=24 ('eng') on the English entries, 66 ('rus') on the Cyrillic entry, 30 ('fre') on the French entries, 78 ('swe') on the Swedish entry, 80 ('tur') on ARNAVUTLUK (Albania in Turkish) — every cross-check correct, no exceptions found.

is_continent

1 only on the 2 Europe pseudo-entries, 0 on every real country.

Practical use

Combine read_cal() with abc_reader.read_abc()'s language table (index → language code) for a real (country, language) → localized name lookup — e.g. showing a localized country name in an Address Entry country list instead of whatever single name eeu.ctr itself stores.

Reader code

research/cal_reader.py — read_cal().