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



Dave Jones wrote:

> The country's name is "ROC"(Republic of China).
> 
> Taiwan Province is an administrative subdivision of the Republic of China
> (ROC). Even though the province-level municipalities of Taipei City and
> Kaohsiung City are on the island of Taiwan, they are not administratively
> part of the Province. Taiwan Province also excludes Kinmen and Lienchiang
> Counties, which are adminstered as the ROC part of Fujian Province.
> 
> So Taiwan _is_ a province, both for "ROC" and "PRC". This is neutral.

Yeah, but Taiwan Province isn't what is meant.  :-P  What's meant is Chinese
(Traditional) writing system, ROC currency, timezone, etc.

Country/Region/Area is simply the Wrong Category, especially considering
that Hong Kong uses Traditional Chinese and so forth.  Unfortunately, the
lang_COUNTRY locale system is too entrenched at this point.  :-P

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