On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 04:17:05AM +0800, Tetralet wrote: > "Must debian-installer use "iso-codes" package when choosing country, > Even though it will hurt some people, like people who living in Taiwan?" > And I think your answer is "YES". > We, the debian users in Taiwan, Hongkong and mainland China, have > discussed about this for several days. > You may visit http://moto.debian.org.tw/viewtopic.php?t=3192 for more > details. > We all consent that to replace "Taiwan" with "Taiwan, Province of China" > is not suitable. > It don't match to the real political situation, > And it will bring a mountain of political disputes. > People who install Debian via debian-installer will find that "Taiwan" > was replaced with "Taiwan, Province of China". > They may not detect immediately that this country code is based on ISO-3166, > But they will think that Debian is discriminating against Taiwan people. > It will not be a very good first impression to Debian users. Will these users be installing using English or Traditional Chinese as the language? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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