Christian and Tobias: Thanks to both of you for your replies.
2017-06-13 22:50 GMT-06:00 Christian PERRIER <bubu...@debian.org>:
> I introduced "common names" in order to solve TWO specific cases that
> had very strong political implications, *including in the said
> countries themselves : Taiwan and Macedonia. These names are the way
> these countries and their respective governing bodies want them to be
> called. However, international bodies (namely the UNO and the ISO-3166
> standard agency), have chosen to follow advices and influences from
> *outside* the said countries, to include names ("Taiwan, Republic of
> China" and "Former Yougoslavian Republic of Macedonia") that are NOT
> ACCEPTED inside the countries.
If the goal is to depoliticize Taiwan then it would help to add common
names for other countries as well. That way, Taiwan won't be singled
out as the only country to have an unofficial name. Making it easier
to compute on all countries' commonly used names would just be a happy
side effect.
