Re: Support for BCP 47 (Tags for Identifying Languages)

On Jun 11, 11:56=A0am, "Tim Chien (MozTW)" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I would like to high light the discussion AGAIN about the
> political-biased ISO 3166 country/region names regarding Taiwan and
> Macedonia.
>
> It would be devastated for community if such change landed without revise.

As I've stated in the past, it is not a goal of this bug to change any
politically-charged names.

The IANA Language Subtag Registry lists certain names for certain
regions for their own reasons. Should the Mozilla communities feel
that a different name is more appropriate, this current plan (as
available on the wiki) allows for those changes to be made without
significant issue.

Our current thought is to create a master list based on the IANA
registry (which includes the names which you feel are inappropriate)
and then allow the locales (including 'en-US') to choose whichever
translation is most appropriate. This may result in the "translation"
from English to English in order to correct for any biases the region
names may encode. There would be no noticeable difference to users in
those regions.

I hope that eases your worries.

Gordon