Bug#260887: Untranslated country names and hang in apt-config and korean locale.
Quoting Changwoo Ryu (cwryu@debian.org):
> Hmm I think changing "Korea, Republic of" to "South Korea" or
> "Korea (South)" would be fine (Same for North Korea). Anyway most
> ordinary people can't know these official Korean names, ROK/DPRK. ;)
> "South Korea" to South Korean, or "North Korea" to North Korean people
> may sound offensive... But I can "translate" these to non-offensive
> ones
> for Korean language users.
I would object to this as iso-codes contains official names for
countries and in that case, using non official names is very likely to
trigger political problems while official names are accepted.
We have to find a way to handle these commas, imho. Usually the method
is escaping them in the templates file.
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