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

[Gavin Atkinson]

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

From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin at FreeBSD.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: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 20:46:58 +0100 (BST)

 The list of countries in sysinstall are generated from 
 src/share/misc/iso3166 which is based on the official ISO3166 list of 
 countries found at http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes.htm
 
 http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166-faqs/iso_3166_faqs_specific.htm
 provides justification for the use of this name by ISO.
 
 Please note that the first PR you cite, 68226, is actually requesting the 
 country name be changed the other way: In FreeBSD 5.2.1, the country was 
 named "Taiwan" in src/share/misc/iso3166 and that PR seems to be 
 requesting that is be referred to as "Taiwan Province of China".
 
 However, I will leave this PR open, as it appears from the link you 
 supplied that the Debian community at least have come to a clear consesnus 
 on this and feel the country should be referred to as "Taiwan".  I'm not 
 in a position to decide either way.
 
 Gavin