Re: Must debian-installer use iso-codes package when choosing country?
Tetralet <tetralet@pchome.com.tw> wrote:
>
> 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.
Yeah right, all I see is a bunch Taiwanese separatists. I'm sure
you'll find a totally different result if you tried this on a mainland
website.
> 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.
>
> And, It is a gross disparagement to Taiwan people.
> Thus some of us may refuse to use Debian anymore.
Who cares? It'd be much better if you didn't use Debian at all.
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