Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2018 02:57:22 +0000 (UTC) From: Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r51807 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/internal Message-ID: <201806090257.w592vM2i076652@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: eadler Date: Sat Jun 9 02:57:21 2018 New Revision: 51807 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/51807 Log: internal: update i18n policy Following a report of a dead link, core@ updated the text of the i18n policy. Follow suit. Approved by: core@ Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/internal/i18n.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/internal/i18n.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/internal/i18n.xml Fri Jun 8 15:50:06 2018 (r51806) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/internal/i18n.xml Sat Jun 9 02:57:21 2018 (r51807) @@ -12,37 +12,10 @@ </head> <body class="navinclude.docs"> - - <h2>Policy</h2> - - <p>When listing countries or other geographic areas in - documentation, menus, mirror/FTP lists, or other contexts, it is - important to introduce such lists as "Countries or Regions" so that - an implied sovereignty claim is neither made nor denied to those - regions which have their own top level domains.</p> - - <p>The ISO 3166 country codes do not necessarily refer to - nation-states (e.g. Hong Kong) and should not be treated as such. - Likewise the "official" ISO 3166 short English names for those - countries and regions which have top level domains are in some cases - controversial, and not all of them are commonly used in the software - industry.</p> - - <p>We follow the guidelines used by IBM, Microsoft, Google, and - other prominent software companies in their documentation in that - Taiwan should never be included with a distinction referring to the - Republic of China, People's Republic of China, or a national flag. - Interpretation of the word "Taiwan" is in the eye of the beholder, - and The FreeBSD Project does not endorse any particular position.</p> - - <p>Reference:</p> - - <ol> - <li><a - href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/topics/writing/">IBM - Localization guidelines</a></li> - </ol> - - + <h2>Policy</h2> + <p>The FreeBSD Project uses ISO 3166 country codes in + software included in the release distributions and the + official website to describe geographical regions in the + world.</p> </body> </html>
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