Re: Incorrect use of "it's" in package control files -- file mass bug?
Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> writes:
> ISO-3166 normalizes two names for each country...the long name is
> often a thing like "Blahblah Republic" or "Whatever Kingdom"....or lot
> of different things...while the "short" name is the most commonly known
> name. Some countries however have quite long "short" names..such as
> "Lybian Arab Jimahiriya"...or the now well known (for Debianists)
> "Taiwan, province of China".
>
> For Mexico, the short name is "Mexico" and the long name is "United
> Mexican States" (all ISO-3166 names are normalized in English and
> French....strangely the standard does not have room for the name in
> the official(s) language(s) of the country...probably because there
> may be more than one)
Except that ISO-3166 doesn't actually define linguistic usage. Sorry.
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