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[BlueT - Matthew Lien - 練喆明 <bluet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ubuntu-TW held at least 3 country-wide activities an year, and we're the
biggest staff-source of "COSCUP"[1] for years, which is going to be held
at 8/14~15 with "GNOME.Asia Summit"[2] Co-Host with us this year, with
over a thousand people over the world attend.

Many Well-Known OpenSource guys are planning to come, including Mark
Shuttleworth, who came to Taiwan for Business (OEM) and Community
purpose for over 5 times. Because they know here, Taiwan, Republic of
China, is an important Country for promoting Ubuntu and OpenSource.

As you can guess, it would be a Big Joke if they found loco.ubuntu.com
has the totally wrong Country Name of Taiwan, got notified, bug-
reported, and got no way to correct it.

"Ubuntu Training Partner"[3] page had the same bug (which came from
ISO-3166) before. It got corrected when they know they made it wrong.
Now the new version of that page use only "Taiwan" to avoid the problem.

And Yes, of course we want ISO-3166 to get updated at the same time, but I don't know how.
I'd be really glad if anybody can help about this.
But before that, could anybody help on the wrong information provided on LoCo.ubuntu.com?

The bug-more ISO-3166 brought many problem in the history, including D-I (Debian Installer)[4], Starbucks[5], NASA[6] and even CIA[7] had the same problem, but they all get their information corrected.
As in DFSG #5, ("5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups"), people in Taiwan should have the neccessary respect from Ubuntu, too.


As ISO is not an Independent and Politic-Free Organization, it doesn't represent the real status of the truth, though many people follow it.
Why should you insist to follow a document when you know it's wrong/buggy?

Wikipedia also has the page for Taiwan, ROC [7].

If you need any more informations, please let us know. Thanx really
much.


Ref:
[1] http://coscup.org/
[2] http://gnome.asia/
[3] http://webapps.ubuntu.com/partners/training/
[4] http://wiki.debian.org.tw/index.php/InstallationSystemDiscussion
[5] http://news.starbucks.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=227
[6] http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3163/2946398109_1a3a8f77e1.jpg
[7] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/tw.html
[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China


** Changed in: loco-directory
       Status: Invalid => Incomplete

** Changed in: loco-directory
       Status: Incomplete => New

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Wrong Country Name. (Taiwan)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/614236
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Status in LoCo Directory: New
Status in “iso-codes” package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
The Official Country Name of Taiwan is "Taiwan, Republic of China", NOT "Taiwan, Province of China".
This is an important Bug, please kindly fix this ASAP. Thanx.

Ref: Taiwan Government Website http://www.taiwan.gov.tw/mp.asp?mp=1001