Re: Resignation

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>]

On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 08:45:43AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> The name people are asking to have listed in the Debian installer is
> "Taiwan".  Please explain how this is a politically-charged name.

Apparently the situation is politically charged because it's the only
entry where we differ from the ISO 3166 list. 

http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/list-en1.html

I suspect that if we started from scratch and put .tw => "Taiwan"
there'd be no issue.


Hamish
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