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[Michael Hall <mhall119@xxxxxxxxx>]

As loco directory developers, our focus is on making loco.ubuntu.com the
best community resource we can make it.  However, we're not experts in
all fields, especially international politics, and so we often have to
rely on existing "authorities" like ISO 3166 to provide information for
us.  There was never any intention to slight or disregard Taiwan,
Venezuela or any other country, it was simply a matter of using what was
available to us.  We are hesitant to introduce special cases, or
contradict what we get from such "authorities", because we usually don't
have the qualifications to make better decisions than those
"authorities".  As such, our use of the ISO 3166 names was made from
humility, not arrogance.

That said, I'm very glad we now have a solution that both utilizes the
information available to us in the ISO names, and allows us to present a
more accurate and acceptable set of country names.  We will always
strive to make the loco directory better, and far from having a "dead-
head", we will always work to correct bugs and inaccuracies in it when
they are brought to our attention.  But please remember they we are
currently still a very small group and, as far as I know, we are all
just human (worse still, software developers), so please take that into
consideration when filing bugs and leaving comments.

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

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