svn commit: r191197 - head/share/misc

Kevin Lo kevlo at FreeBSD.org
Fri Apr 17 09:29:40 UTC 2009


Juli Mallett wrote: 
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Kevin Lo <kevlo at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Log:
> >  Change Taiwan, Province of China to Taiwan, Republic of China
> >
> > Modified:
> >  head/share/misc/iso3166
> 
> Do you have a source for this change?  The ISO sites I've checked
> don't support it.  For example:
> 
> http://www.iso.org/iso/iso-3166-1_decoding_table
> 
> And no obvious recent name change item on the "What's new?" page:
> 
> http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/check_what_s_new.htm

This is a highly political issue. You wouldn't like the US to be
referred to as "United States, province of Britain.".

	Kevin



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