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Date: 2008-07-20
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Jean-Michel POURE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Stop refering to Google. The only world authority are the United-Nations.
Only because we didn't have google.
-miles
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Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> (*) Recently the term "USian" has been dramatically gaining in popularity
> around the world.
Can you actually demonstrate this?
AFAICS, `USian' is a mildly pejorative[*] term used mainly by
usenet/slashdot types, and is essentially never used in the
Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Agreed. As anyone _can_ change any code in Debian, _we_ should stick as a
> > default to the names that the people who it applies to like, and not to
> > names who others have fixed on them.
>
> Excellent! Now, how's that Unicode installer coming alon
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > These names are[3] those chosen by the respective countries -- _that_ is
> > something I thing ought to be respected (so if Taiwan were to suddenly
> > start calling itself [in English] `Province of China Taiwan', well then
> > the argument is over I gu
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 05:42:00PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Furthermore, doesn't Hong Kong use Traditional Chinese? In this case,
> the issue of writing style is rather independent of the status of
> Taiwan.
Yup. I wonder whether there's any pressure on them these days to change,
since ...
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > It's only Taiwan that's weird, because (1) the resulting long name
> > isn't a real name at all, but the rather awkward construct:
> > "Province of China Taiwan" and obviously (2) that isn't the
> > self-declared name of the country[2].
>
>there's al
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm just a naïve gaijin[1], but I'm not sure you're right about that.
> Written zh_CN and zh_TW look very similar to Western eyes. I've seen a
> comparison of the two in some Sun documentation, and they really just
> looked like the exact same glyphs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Claus Färber) writes:
> BTW, there are a lot of other names from ISO 3166 that IMO should be
> changed for everyday use:
>
> Short name contains unnecessary parts from the full official name
> (probably for political hyper-correctness):
>
> IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF;IR
Anthony Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> certainly it is NOT a bug. Anyone with half a brain can see that.
So how do you justify the brokenness of the Taiwan entry -- which unlike
every other entry, doesn't properly yield the name of the country?
Can you?
[BTW, you included my entire messag
"Stefan Tibus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Debian shouldn't _make_ editorial comments like this, but they shouldn't
> > dumbly stand by and mirror those made by others with fewer scruples.
>
> I wouldn't say Debian _made_ that editorial comment, they used it as it
> was proposed by some stand
Anthony Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Why why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"? Why can't it
> > just stick with a neutral "Taiwan". Why single out a geographical
> > name and append a political statement to it? Sticks out and looks
> > kind of silly.
> Debian cannot win
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