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Some things seem to get away with "Taiwan, Province of China".
by ubernostrum 8y ago
Some things seem to get away with "Taiwan, Province of China".
- gurkendoktor 8y agoOh, thanks for mentioning this. This phrasing is mostly a rookie developer trap! We're all so used to ISO standards that we assume they are politically neutral. That's why everyone starts their weekend project with the ISO 3166 country list that includes "Taiwan, Province of China" [1] [2] [3]. This list is crap. It follows UN country names, and the UN is not a neutral entity. It isn't even logical that "Hong Kong" can stand on its own in the list, but Taiwan has to be suffixed with "Province of China". As far as I know, no major website uses this list unmodified. (The airlines that recently bowed to PRC pressure now call it "Taiwan, China"). If you see the "Province of China" label on a website, you should refer its developer to the Unicode CLDR data: http://cldr.unicode.org/index http://cldr.unicode.org/index The CLDR data is the actual industry standard, and tries to be as neutral as possible. [1] https://github.com/rails/country_select https://github.com/rails/country_select [2] https://gist.github.com/DHS/1340150 https://gist.github.com/DHS/1340150 [3] https://pypi.org/project/django-countries/ https://pypi.org/project/django-countries/