Because it's what we currently used for our products. And anyone can file a bug on bugzilla to fix those problem you mentioned, in the mean time other project can adopt it without go through all hesitate & resolving argues for ISO 3166 all again.
2015-06-09 17:52 GMT+08:00 Gijs Kruitbosch <[email protected]>: > Why is this a "good" list? This doesn't have an entry for Kosovo, nor for > South Sudan, nor for the most recent incarnation of the various Netherlands > Antilles (it still has "Netherlands Antilles" which is no longer a nation > state entity) > > ~ Gijs > > On 09/06/2015 10:02, Irvin Chen wrote: > >> 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 >>> >>> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > -- @ irvinfly: community liaison moztw.org Mozilla Taiwan community _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
