Re: [arch-general] Country Name (ISO-3116) Issues

nk/source/data/region/en.txtPleasenote that noone here means any disrespect to citizens of Taiwan or > other any country. But also not everyone is well educated in other countries' > history (especially such fine-grained as that of Taiwan), nor does said > education have highest priority. > > While many people understand that Province of China may sound offensive and > certainly everyone recognizes Taiwan's sovereignty, you have to keep in mind > that for a vast majority of users there is a little distinction between all > the names Taiwan has been given by UN/ISO/... -- those are just designations. > > Therefore, taking this discussion to a public ML is educative and pointless as > it will only feed the trolls (as you can already see). If you really feel like > you have to, report the issue personally to the site maintainer or the project > leader. > >> >> But as has been suggested maybe Arch should choose a different upstream >> for this kind of information. Please open your mind a little, a false >> standard is no standard at all. >> > > > > -- > Leonid Isaev > GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D > Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D > -- Best Regards, Zero, Chien-An Cho

[arch-general] Country Name (ISO-3116) Issues

Hello, First of all, I am sorry to bring political issues to here. I have been using ArchLinux for years, deployed on many servers, though I'm not joining the community until now. The recent changes to the ArchLinux webpages (ex. Downloads, Mirror Status) is really offending Taiwanese people. I wo