Re: [i18n] String Changes in iso-codes
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 02:14:12PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> On 22.III2004 at 12:27 Christian Perrier wrote:
> > Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> > > P.S. Exactly 16 years ago some people in my country were forced to
> > > change their names because they were not to the liking of somebody.
> >
> > I'm not sure this is the same problem.
>
> A humiliating name is given to you/your country and hurts you -- this
> is the same in both cases. I would feel shame to participate in such
> an action.
Debian cannot win this argument and should not participate in it. We
have to choose names from some standards body somewhere, and no matter
what we do somebody will disagree.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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