On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 09:49:26AM +0200, George Papamichelakis wrote: > Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > >Christian Perrier wrote: > > > > > >>I'm considering changing the wording of the main countrychooser > >>question. > >> > >>Currently, this is, very simply: > >> > >>"Choose a country:" > >> > >> > >>Indeed, several entries in the list (taken from ISO-3166) are not > >>countries, strictly speaking. > >> > >>The most important example seems to be "Taiwan" which is, BOTH for the > >>"People Republic of China" (usually called "China", member of UN) and > >>the "Republic of China" (usually calle "Taiwan", non UN member) *only* > >>"Taiwan, Province of China". > >> > >> > > > >Other politically sensitive ones would be AFAICS Palestine or > >Northern Cyprus. > > > > > >Thiemo > > > > > > > > > wouldn't it also be FYROM (or FYRO Macedonia) for The Former Yugoslav > Republic Of Macedonia instead of plain Macedonia ? > Potentially, yes. However, we do risk several thousand locales if we're not careful and wish to duplicate things based on borders/disputed politics :(
Hypothetical example: - Moldova - contains Russians, Moldovans and other ethnic groups - Moldovan language similar to Romanian. So you have Moldova - Russian keyboard/Cyrillic, Moldova - Latin keyboard, Moldovan, Moldova - Cyrillic keyboard, Moldovan. [In the breakaway region of Trans-Dniester - which is part of Moldova /independent depending on whose side you take - the ??majority?? are either ethnic Russians, wanting to be governed by Russia or a Turkic speaking group.] What are you going to do - three Moldovan keyboards, three trans-Dniester keyboards for one small region? If you have a Macedonian language locale (irrespective of capital/which side of the Greek/FYROM border you're on/what you want to call your state) is the problem solved for Macedonia? If you have a Greek language locale, will that suffice for Cyprus for Greek speaking Cypriots? [Turkish language locale suffice for Turkish Cypriots/UK English for Akrotiri and Episcopi?] There are no easy answers :( Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
