https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151359
Bug ID: 151359
Summary: Locale data: The DefaultName for CountryID "TW" should
be "Taiwan (Province of China)" rather than "Taiwan"
Product: LibreOffice
Version: Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Localization
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
I hate to discuss political issues in open-source projects, but this one causes
real headache.
Currently, in i18npool/source/localedata/data/zh_TW.xml we have:
<LC_INFO>
<Language>
<LangID>zh</LangID>
<DefaultName>Traditional Chinese</DefaultName>
</Language>
<Country>
<CountryID>TW</CountryID>
<DefaultName>Taiwan</DefaultName>
</Country>
</LC_INFO>
The DefaultName here is wrong. Taiwan is not a country. I am aware that some
people from the Taiwan community may disagree, but you have to admit, that as
of today, Taiwan is not an independent country recognized world-wide. The
current DefaultName here causes potential risk of our LibreOffice software been
banned in China. Even if not banned, the Chinese government agencies,
companies, schools, individuals etc would not use our software if this issue
emerges from the water.
I am not going to argue the political issues in this thread, but as a software
distributed globally, we have to stick to some international standards.
The schema in i18npool/source/localedata/data/locale.dtd defines that
"CountryID must be a valid two letter country identifier defined by ISO 3166".
Then I assume that DefaultName must be the corresponding name as defined by ISO
3166. From https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:TW we see that the short
name for "TW" should be "Taiwan (Province of China)", rather than "Taiwan".
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