Look at the data, we already do make those kinds of alterations, including Taiwan and Bolivia.
I'm getting a little tired of far fetched examples in this thread. ~F -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. On May 23, 2015 11:05, "Panos Astithas" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 1:55 AM, Fred Wenzel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> - The basic list follows the names and country codes of the ISO 3166-2 >> regions and country list >> - We shorten the name of Taiwan to "Taiwan" (<insert blob about leaving >> interpretation up to the beholder>) >> ^^ in fact, we might want to change that to "we shorten some country names >> to more commonly used variants", which will allow us to call Bolivia >> Bolivia) >> > > This sounds like precisely the kind of policy that will get us into > trouble. Did you know that referring to what ISO recognizes as the "Former > Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" as simply "Macedonia" is something that > even today will get some Greeks up in arms? Do we really want to get into > this mess? > > I can understand either using ISO verbatim or using a free-form field > labeled "Country or Region", because in both cases we can legitimately say > in case of complaints "it's not our fault", but devising our own special > set of rules sounds like asking for trouble. > > Panos > > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
