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Date:      Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:08:43 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        Hiroki Sato <hrs@freebsd.org>, pgj@freebsd.org
Cc:        doc-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-doc@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq book.sgml
Message-ID:  <20080822090843.GR32539@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080822.162414.52355693.hrs@allbsd.org>
References:  <200808092310.m79NA9uG073876@repoman.freebsd.org> <20080817.073153.167011077.hrs@allbsd.org> <48A75F24.10404@FreeBSD.org> <20080822.162414.52355693.hrs@allbsd.org>

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On 2008-Aug-22 16:24:14 +0900, Hiroki Sato <hrs@freebsd.org> wrote:
>Gabor PALI <pgj@FreeBSD.org> wrote
>  in <48A75F24.10404@FreeBSD.org>:
>
>pg> Hiroki Sato wrote:
>pg> >  When you add a country name next to a language name, please use the
>pg> >  official one.  US is not the official name, and Taiwan is not a
>pg> >  country name from our point of view, for example.
>pg>
>pg> Thank you for your comments.  Could you (or somebody) tell me what
>pg> (naming scheme) to use instead of them?  E.g.:
>pg>
>pg> United States --> United States of America  ?
>pg> China         --> People's Republic of China ?
>...
>pg> Hungary       --> Republic of Hungary ?

CIA World Factbook and Wikipedia agree on these.

>pg> Taiwan        --> Republic of China ?
>
> This is a politically-sensitive issue.

Agreed.  UN website appears to ignore its existence.  CIA just gives
"Taiwan".  Wikipedia gives Republic of China.  PRC uses "Chinese Taipei".

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Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.

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