@ 05/05/2004 11:40 : wrote Wang WenRui :
Around 08 o'clock on 05 May, Steve Langasek wrote:On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 01:57:21PM +0200, Hugo Wau wrote: The name people are asking to have listed in the Debian installer isJust *some* people do. Some of these people started a large thread in debian-devel, debian-boot and debian-users here several weeks ago, IIRC."Taiwan". Please explain how this is a politically-charged name.The 2nd screen of d-i: /---------------------[Choose *country*]-----------------\ | Choose your country: | | | | China | | Hong Kong | | Taiwan | | | | | \_______________________________________________________/ This is ridiculous. Nobody calls Hong Kong a country. When it comes to Taiwan: Taiwan is a province of Republic of China and The People's Republic of China considers Taiwan part of its sovereign territory[1]. Now something about the independence movement[2]:
Google is always our friend; Taiwan and Hong Kong are countries at least in the definitions ## 2, 3, 5, 7 *and* 9 below. If it's in the Web, it ougha be true.
1. the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries" www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn <http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn?stage=1&word=country>
2. a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land" www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn <http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn?stage=1&word=country>
3. the people who live in a nation or country; "a statement that sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced to the nation"; "the whole country worshipped him" www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn <http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn?stage=1&word=country>
4. an area outside of cities and towns; "his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country" www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn <http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn?stage=1&word=country>
5. a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography); "it was a mountainous area"; "Bible country" www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn <http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn?stage=1&word=country>
6. the country of the address.epawww.ciesin.org/raymine/fgdc/fgdcdefs.html <http://epawww.ciesin.org/raymine/fgdc/fgdcdefs.html>
7. n. [area of land which is separate and governs itself (I like travelling to other countries.)] negeri www.info-indo.com/language/engindo.htm <http://www.info-indo.com/language/engindo.htm>
8. – a sovereign nation or state.www.whitehall.k12.mi.us/curriculum/socialstudies/glossaryofterms.htm <http://www.whitehall.k12.mi.us/curriculum/socialstudies/glossaryofterms.htm>
9. A term covering both (a) sovereign nations, and (b) nonsovereign territories (dependencies or colonies) which are not integral parts of larger parent nations.
www.retta.org/study/word-day.htm <http://www.retta.org/study/word-day.htm>
Please, people, let's work, calling Taiwan by the moniker "Taiwan" is *NOT* a political statement.It is a political movement whose goal is to create a sovereign, independent Republic of Taiwan out of the lands currently administered by the Republic of China. It is supported by the pan-green coalition on Taiwan and opposed by the pan-blue coalition and the People's Republic of China, which favor Chinese reunification. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_independence
-- br,M