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Re: Location list proposal [was: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?]



As pointed out clearly in the "common xml locale
repository" paper[1] from ICU, Page 3:

"Language and Territory codes follow ISO-639 and
ISO-3166 respectively".

See also the RFC 3066 - Tags for the Identification of
Languages:
2.2 Language tag sources
- All 2-letter subtags are interpreted as ISO 3166
alpha-2 country codes from [ISO 3166].

Look, the standard is *international* and should be
followed.

btw: to people from China Taiwan who start the
needless flame war here: check the source of locale
data from ICU[2], why won't you go against IBM, but
against Debian here? Just because you saw it and don't
like it?

[1]
http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/docs/papers/xml_locale_iuc23_a341.pdf
[2]
http://oss.software.ibm.com/cvs/icu/~checkout~/icu/source/data/locales/root.txt

--- Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 06:00:28PM -0700, Anthony
> Johnson wrote:
> > ICU's name list _is_ following ISO 3166, and so do
> > many other sources. 
> 
> What does that mean?  These lists are different, and
> ICU has a much less
> controversial wording.
> 
> Denis
> 
> 
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