Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 ...
Well for the same reason most of thel mainland Chinese people will disagree with showing just Taiwan instead of the longer version. In fact, you'll probably get Debian banned by the Chinese government should they get wind of this fact. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
