conf/138672: ISO 3166 call Taiwan a wrong name, please call Taiwan "Taiwan" as before.

[Li-Lun Wang (Leland Wang)]

The following reply was made to PR conf/138672; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Li-Lun Wang (Leland Wang)" <llwang at infor.org>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: conf/138672: ISO 3166 call Taiwan a wrong name, please call
 Taiwan "Taiwan" as before.
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:55:20 +0800

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 I agree with Kang-min's opinion.  FreeBSD, as well as any project that
 tries to be political neutral, should not use country names listed in
 the ISO3166 table as the official source of country names.  The ISO3166
 standard defines only country codes, not country names.  The country
 names listed in the ISO3166 table is simply taken from the UN source,
 which is by no means political neutral, as Taiwan is not a member of
 the UN, and therefore is not listed in the UN's bulletin of country
 names, and does not have a say in its own name in the UN.  By using the
 country names listed in the ISO3166 table, we become political biased
 to the UN, offend users in Taiwan, without being any more standard
 compliant.
 
 - -- llwang
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