svn commit: r191197 - head/share/misc

[Juli Mallett]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Kevin Lo <kevlo at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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.".

Indeed.  However politics have no place in accurate representation of
standards.  The place to create such a change is at the ISO, rather
than making FreeBSD inaccurate.  Likewise, please do not change any
standards-defined references to Mongolia to imply that it is a part of
the Republic of China unless the standard involved says it is.  If
something isn't defined by a standards body, arguments of a political
nature about the merit of the change might be relevant.  In this case,
the file's contents are to reflect ISO reality, not any other reality.

Juli.