Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:08:43 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Hiroki Sato <hrs@freebsd.org>, pgj@freebsd.org Cc: doc-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-doc@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq book.sgml Message-ID: <20080822090843.GR32539@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20080822.162414.52355693.hrs@allbsd.org> References: <200808092310.m79NA9uG073876@repoman.freebsd.org> <20080817.073153.167011077.hrs@allbsd.org> <48A75F24.10404@FreeBSD.org> <20080822.162414.52355693.hrs@allbsd.org>
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--Q59ABw34pTSIagmi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2008-Aug-22 16:24:14 +0900, Hiroki Sato <hrs@freebsd.org> wrote: >Gabor PALI <pgj@FreeBSD.org> wrote > in <48A75F24.10404@FreeBSD.org>: > >pg> Hiroki Sato wrote: >pg> > When you add a country name next to a language name, please use the >pg> > official one. US is not the official name, and Taiwan is not a >pg> > country name from our point of view, for example. >pg> >pg> Thank you for your comments. Could you (or somebody) tell me what >pg> (naming scheme) to use instead of them? E.g.: >pg> >pg> United States --> United States of America ? >pg> China --> People's Republic of China ? >... >pg> Hungary --> Republic of Hungary ? CIA World Factbook and Wikipedia agree on these. >pg> Taiwan --> Republic of China ? > > This is a politically-sensitive issue. Agreed. UN website appears to ignore its existence. CIA just gives "Taiwan". Wikipedia gives Republic of China. PRC uses "Chinese Taipei". --=20 Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. --Q59ABw34pTSIagmi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkiughsACgkQ/opHv/APuIcxLACeIFr053kJBBe/DOGnBsJLzXLD 1q4AoLf544aan2UIC0upYC7/P0/i03/J =gOuJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Q59ABw34pTSIagmi--
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