Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:00:10 GMT From: "Li-Lun Wang (Leland Wang)" <llwang@infor.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/138672: ISO 3166 call Taiwan a wrong name, please call Taiwan "Taiwan" as before. Message-ID: <200909171700.n8HH0A7i000215@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR conf/138672; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Li-Lun Wang (Leland Wang)" <llwang@infor.org> To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: conf/138672: ISO 3166 call Taiwan a wrong name, please call Taiwan "Taiwan" as before. Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:55:20 +0800 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I agree with Kang-min's opinion. FreeBSD, as well as any project that tries to be political neutral, should not use country names listed in the ISO3166 table as the official source of country names. The ISO3166 standard defines only country codes, not country names. The country names listed in the ISO3166 table is simply taken from the UN source, which is by no means political neutral, as Taiwan is not a member of the UN, and therefore is not listed in the UN's bulletin of country names, and does not have a say in its own name in the UN. By using the country names listed in the ISO3166 table, we become political biased to the UN, offend users in Taiwan, without being any more standard compliant. - -- llwang -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFKsmn2CQM7t5B2mhARAtOJAJ9P1kcnLLSBP7cqbcZrcqnOu42Z1ACZAbRW qebCznI7eLjaPjSY2VS1PTM= =Ljut -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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