Re: A General Resolution? [was: Standard Compliance in Country Names]

2004-04-20 Thread Denis Barbier
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 08:40:34PM +, Chuan-kai Lin wrote: [...] > A more interesting question would be asking them if they consider the > country names listed in ISO 3166 also part of the standard. If they > respond that the country names are only used to make it clear to which > country/regi

Re: A General Resolution? [was: Standard Compliance in Country Names]

2004-04-20 Thread Chuan-kai Lin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I unfortunately missed Christian on Friday by a few hours, but I will > comment on the draft he sent to me and make sure it's ready when he > returns from his holidays. I can guess

Re: A General Resolution? [was: Standard Compliance in Country Names]

2004-04-19 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
* Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-16 07:18]: > I proposed this mail to Martin Michlmayr as it is written in the name > of the Debian Project, not in my own name (I don't expect an answer if > I just send a mail as an individual). > > Martin is of course busy, so I don't expect an an

Re: Standard Compliance in Country Names

2004-04-16 Thread Chuan-kai Lin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Denis Barbier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> the names which are best suited for their needs. (But changing >> this language name is not that easy and will take several days) >> So Christian, take some r

Re: A General Resolution? [was: Standard Compliance in Country Names]

2004-04-16 Thread Denis Barbier
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 03:11:30PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Denis Barbier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > In the meantime, are you going to replace galician by galleghan in > > languagelist to follow ISO 639? This would be logical, and make more > > Well, sounds logical to me, yes. >

Re: A General Resolution? [was: Standard Compliance in Country Names]

2004-04-16 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Denis Barbier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > In the meantime, are you going to replace galician by galleghan in > languagelist to follow ISO 639? This would be logical, and make more Well, sounds logical to me, yes. This just needs someone reporting the bug to iso-codes.I'm not the maintain

Re: A General Resolution? [was: Standard Compliance in Country Names]

2004-04-16 Thread Denis Barbier
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 07:18:21AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Anton Zinoviev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > 4. ISO 3166 is not politically independent standard. Moreover it has > > *This* is a political statement..:-) > > On this topic, I have started writing a formal mail to the ISO

Re: A General Resolution? [was: Standard Compliance in Country Names]

2004-04-16 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On 16.IV.2004 07:18 (+0200) Christian Perrier wrote: > > > 4. ISO 3166 is not politically independent standard. Moreover it has > > *This* is a political statement..:-) I agree. > Getting an official answer from ISO-3166 would at least help us > in deciding whether this standard body is or isn

Re: A General Resolution? [was: Standard Compliance in Country Names]

2004-04-15 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Anton Zinoviev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 4. ISO 3166 is not politically independent standard. Moreover it has *This* is a political statement..:-) On this topic, I have started writing a formal mail to the ISO-3166 secretary asking about an official statement from ISO-3166 about their use

A General Resolution? [was: Standard Compliance in Country Names]

2004-04-15 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On 15.IV.2004 at 08:08 (+0200) Christian Perrier wrote: > > However, I take this occasion to highlight something which seems > misunderstood hereĀ : I, myself, Christian Perrier, am absolutely NOT > in position of changing anything on my own decision. Then probably we can use a General Resolution?

Re: Standard Compliance in Country Names

2004-04-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Denis Barbier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > the names which are best suited for their needs. (But changing > this language name is not that easy and will take several days) > So Christian, take some rest without net access and when you are back > we will see if you change your mind about this is

Re: Standard Compliance in Country Names

2004-04-14 Thread Denis Barbier
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 10:39:29PM +, Chuan-kai Lin wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As Martin wrote privately to me about this issue (I guess I could > > quote him completely about this but I didn't receive his expli

Standard Compliance in Country Names

2004-04-14 Thread Chuan-kai Lin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As Martin wrote privately to me about this issue (I guess I could > quote him completely about this but I didn't receive his explicit > permission for that), we are not in the business of deciding which >