>In NZ it's Brown (A) Blue (N) and Green/Yellow stripe (E).
>The striped Earth wire is so that people who are red/green
>colour-blind don't confuse the Earth and brown Active

This is actually an international standard, and is what you see right
through Europe as well. Any American product selling internationally should
be supplying power cords with this colour coding, or they have problems
getting approvals at the destination market.

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