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Bug#384510: localechooser: Please use official country names



tags 384510 wontfix
thanks

Quoting Jens Seidel (jensseidel@users.sf.net):
> Package: localechooser
> Severity: minor
> 
> (This refers to the version of localechooser from d-i beta 3)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I wonder why you do not use the official country names. So I found for
> example "Macedonia, Republic of" whereas the offical name (according to
> comments in the PO file) is "The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia".


Please refer to former threads about the names of Taiwan and
Macedonia. I am *not* ready to handle more of these discussions.

The discussion about the name of Taiwan happened around April 2004 in
-devel

The discussion about the name of Macedonia happened in second half of
2004 in -boot, IIRC.

When the Taiwan issue raised up, it took up to a DPL decision to
finally settle the issue to use the "common names" of countries in
case the official name implies high controversial and political issues
with no real solution.

For Macedonia, the compromise is accepted by most of the two
"parties", namely the Greek and Macedonian users.

So, we will definitely *not* fix this.

Don't try to convince me as my own opinion was using the official
names.

Anyway, the issue does not even pertain to localechooser but rather
iso-codes which provides the relevant information.


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