Re: Bug#238973: iso-codes: Official name for TW is "Taiwan, Province of China"
Am Aoine, 2004-03-19 ag 23:01, scríobh Christian Perrier:
> Package: iso-codes
> Version: 0.27-1
> Severity: normal
>
> According to
> http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/list-en1.html#sz
> and the ISO-3166 FAQ, the official name for the TW entry is "Taiwan,
> Province of China".
I will change this if necessary, but would prefer not to. I think a
better solution is to change the name of the list from "Country" to
"Region", eg. "Select a region".
The current names used in /usr/share/iso-codes/iso_3166.tab are chosen
to be a drop-in replacement for the glibc file
/usr/share/zoneinfo/iso3166.tab , which uses "Taiwan". I did not want
to make changes in case something broke, but that does not seem to be an
issue, so I'm open to changing.
However, that is why there is a separate file iso-3166-1.tab with the
Offical, rather than popular, names of regions.
A better solution that I am working on is an XML form of the list,
giving eg.
<iso_3166_entry
alpha_2_code="TW"
alpha_3_code="TWN"
numeric_code="158"
name="Taiwan"
offical_name="Taiwan, Province of China " />
ISO-3166 lists both short and official forms of country names, but some
"short" forms are still verbose for a drop-down list, eg.
"LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC".
> Due to the importance, this subtlety has for Chinese people, both in PRC and
> ROC,
Agreed, Another sensitive name would be "Macedonia".
Less controversially, I am changing
"GB Britain (UK)"
to
"GB United Kingdom"
in the next release, as per usability report.
If you still want Taiwan to be changed, say so, and I will release with
that change.
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