DÃ Domh, 2004-04-04 ag 02:53 +0200, scrÃobh Frans Pop: > I really think that using the 'really' short names (that is just plain Taiwan > instead of Taiwan, P.. of C..) would not be a bad compromise despite what the > official so called short UN names say.
Agreed the "official short names" are ugly ; (http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/list-en1.html) eg. "LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC", "LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA" for those countries normally called "Laos" and "Libya". However, sometimes the short version is the problem too: eg. do we allow "MACEDONIA, THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF", to be shortened to "Macedonia"? I'm sure the Greeks won't agree to that ... > After all, isn't Linux for a large part about being "free" as in "able to > choose for yourselves" which is what Taiwan has been trying to to for the > past decades. Ironically, one of the main reasons I created the iso-codes package is to allow this; if someone wanted to create "Kurdish Linux" and add Kurdistan as a territory, then they would only have 1 list to override or correct on Linux, rather than n separate lists of countries and translations ... (But I don't want to fork Debian over this issue :-( ) > I think the really short names are often a lot more politically neutral than > the semi-official names in iso-3166. The countries in question have used the list to make their own political points; but the problem is that Debian deciding to change some names and not others is no longer being neutral. > FJP Regards, Alastair -- Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint = CD45 260A 4546 C3C0 F595 F0F6 4132 BF90 2A38 5C57 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. - --Thomas Paine
