Just learned that we have already a good list for Country/Region for product. Please use this instead of ISO3166 and make it into a L10n policy!
1) http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/toolkit/locales/en-US/chrome/global/regionNames.properties 2) http://viewvc.svn.mozilla.org/vc/libs/product-details/regions/ 2015-06-09 15:27 GMT+08:00 Irvin Chen <[email protected]>: > I'd notice that recently, more and more new Mozilla website came exist > with this problematic ISO3166 problem. > > For example, > > Mozilla Location Service > https://location.services.mozilla.com/stats/countries > > Shape of the Web > https://shapeoftheweb.mozilla.org/access/speed > > > We Do Need to set a policy (similar to FreeBSD one *1) for Mozilla widely, > or we will have to face all the problem again and again, > once every new Mozilla website come alive. > > Here is also a better list for country/region entity name to use along > with country code from ISO3166, > http://geonames.nga.mil/gns/html/namefiles.html > > *1 https://www.freebsd.org/internal/i18n.html > > > 2015-06-05 15:16 GMT+08:00 Tim Guan-tin Chien <[email protected]>: > >> bump.....? any update on this? Should we move forward with an official >> policy proposed here? >> >> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Gervase Markham <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > On 23/05/15 21:40, Mike Hoye wrote: >> >> - Defer to the ISO spec. We wash our hands of the matter, in other >> >> words. This sends a very clear message to our community. >> > >> > That's what we do now, right? This is the option with the disadvantage >> > that residents of Kosovo, if required to pick a country, must pick >> > either Serbia or Albania? >> > >> >> - Use the ISO spec plus a bunch of extra rules we make up. Charitably, >> I >> >> will call this a very bad idea. We should absolutely not do this. >> > >> > Would you put the FreeBSD policy into this category? >> > http://www.freebsd.org/internal/i18n.html >> > >> > You may say there's a slippery slope, but if you start from the ISO >> > spec, changing "Taiwan, Province of China" to simply "Taiwan" seems like >> > an obvious and widely-adopted improvement, which removes offence from >> > one set of people and (combined with a "Country or Region" label) does >> > not offend anyone else. >> > >> > Is it really beyond our capabilities to figure out which rules fall into >> > the category of "clear improvement" and which do not? >> > >> >> - Make it a freeform text field and trust our people to exercise their >> >> best judgement as members of the Mozilla community. >> > >> > (For completeness: I proposed a way to do this that wouldn't entirely >> > break geographic search.) >> > >> > Gerv >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > governance mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance >> _______________________________________________ >> governance mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance >> > > > > -- > @ irvinfly: community liaison > moztw.org Mozilla Taiwan community > -- @ irvinfly: community liaison moztw.org Mozilla Taiwan community _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
