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You do realise that however they refer to the region ('Palestine' or 'Palestinian Territories'), they're making a political statement. Their reasoning (followi
by johneth 13y ago
You do realise that however they refer to the region ('Palestine' or 'Palestinian Territories'), they're making a political statement.
Their reasoning (following the example of multiple international organisations - including the UN, ICANN, and ISO) is sound.
- mpyne 13y agoAnd it's not just Google that's affected either. Imagine making a desktop environment and e.g. showing a world map to select your time zone. Or having a list of countries & regions to assist the user with localization. Seemingly any list of countries you show will "make a political statement" to someone out there. KDE, for example, had many bugs filed about the naming used for what the ISO calls the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia_naming_dispute http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia_naming_dispute http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/country_codes/country_names_and_code_elements.htm http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/country_codes/country_...
- praptak 13y agoRedhat actually removed Taiwan from KDE's list of locales to please PRC: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/10/6/173153/329 http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/10/6/173153/329