Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:21:53 -0700 From: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> To: Kevin Lo <kevlo@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r191197 - head/share/misc Message-ID: <eaa228be0904170221t1c5a62f5u3c9b3a7cc0d08b4a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1239959410.10096.0.camel@srg.kevlo.org> References: <200904170801.n3H81Iho016111@svn.freebsd.org> <eaa228be0904170108x60c62f8fg380e4ee36b58875@mail.gmail.com> <1239959410.10096.0.camel@srg.kevlo.org>
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On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Kevin Lo <kevlo@freebsd.org> wrote: > Juli Mallett wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Kevin Lo <kevlo@freebsd.org> wrote: >> > Log: >> > Change Taiwan, Province of China to Taiwan, Republic of China >> > >> > Modified: >> > head/share/misc/iso3166 >> >> Do you have a source for this change? The ISO sites I've checked >> don't support it. For example: >> >> http://www.iso.org/iso/iso-3166-1_decoding_table >> >> And no obvious recent name change item on the "What's new?" page: >> >> http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/check_what_s_new.htm > > This is a highly political issue. You wouldn't like the US to be > referred to as "United States, province of Britain.". Indeed. However politics have no place in accurate representation of standards. The place to create such a change is at the ISO, rather than making FreeBSD inaccurate. Likewise, please do not change any standards-defined references to Mongolia to imply that it is a part of the Republic of China unless the standard involved says it is. If something isn't defined by a standards body, arguments of a political nature about the merit of the change might be relevant. In this case, the file's contents are to reflect ISO reality, not any other reality. Juli.
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