(original complete mail in -boot) Quoting Tetralet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> But, What the country name should be is not a technical issue. > > It is a political issue. This is precisely why, in agreement with the Debian Project Leader, the position is currently that Debian has no possibility to make a choice based on political considerations. 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 name is correct. Following official standards is our only possibility and, as he wrote, "If people disagree with the standard, they should take it up with the standards body", which I perfectly agree with. As I wrote many many many many times now, we will make our best to avoid hurting people's feelings. Giving you, the Traditional Chinese translator, an opportunity to choose whichever translation you prefer for TW, is a way to do this. Allowing the so-called "short" list is another (a patch has been submitted and is under investigation). This is a compromise as I already wrote many many many many times. If you insist on bringing things on the political field, you know that politics are made of compromises. Please accept that one until we find a better solution. Please update packages/languagechooser/languagelist.l10n as I requested you for a few days now. *this* is definitely something that will make things progress towards an acceptable solution. > I recommend to use the country code data from "icu-data" package. > I know some country codes form "icu-data" package do not conform to ISO-3166, > But, they are more simple, and less controversial wording. And incorrect. And this not only for TW. This is why I see no enhancement bringed by icu-data, except satisfying your requests....with the price of more work to all other 37 translators (translating the icu-data list) and other headaches when people will start complaining about the name of this or that country. icu-data is by no way a standard. They claim they use ISO-3166, but they don't. In the TW case, this may look like an enhancement, but what for other countries for which they arbitrarily changed official "short" names? -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
