Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 06:50:05 GMT From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/138672: ISO 3166 call Taiwan a wrong name, please call Taiwan "Taiwan" as before. Message-ID: <200909120650.n8C6o5oP064408@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR conf/138672; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> To: gavin@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conf/138672: ISO 3166 call Taiwan a wrong name, please call Taiwan "Taiwan" as before. Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:13:37 -0400 (EDT) In article <mit.lcs.mail.freebsd-bugs/200909091950.n89Jo4As036069@freefall.freebsd.org> you write: > The list of countries in sysinstall are generated from > src/share/misc/iso3166 which is based on the official ISO3166 list of > countries found at http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes.htm Note that ISO 3166 assigns "country" codes to many things which are not countries, but for which it is convenient to have a standardized code. (Including, for example, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the "United States Minor Outlying Islands".) So, as ISO itself states, it should not be considered as taking a position on who has authority to say what the name of any particular entity is. -GAWollman
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