On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Kevin Lo <ke...@freebsd.org> wrote: > Juli Mallett wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Kevin Lo <ke...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> > Log: >> > Change Taiwan, Province of China to Taiwan, Republic of China >> > >> > Modified: >> > head/share/misc/iso3166 >> >> Do you have a source for this change? The ISO sites I've checked >> don't support it. For example: >> >> http://www.iso.org/iso/iso-3166-1_decoding_table >> >> And no obvious recent name change item on the "What's new?" page: >> >> http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/check_what_s_new.htm > > This is a highly political issue. You wouldn't like the US to be > referred to as "United States, province of Britain.".
Indeed. However politics have no place in accurate representation of standards. The place to create such a change is at the ISO, rather than making FreeBSD inaccurate. Likewise, please do not change any standards-defined references to Mongolia to imply that it is a part of the Republic of China unless the standard involved says it is. If something isn't defined by a standards body, arguments of a political nature about the merit of the change might be relevant. In this case, the file's contents are to reflect ISO reality, not any other reality. Juli. _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
