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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional-Based Extension//EN" [
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<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/internal/i18n.sgml,v 1.3 2009/11/07 16:57:42 gabor Exp $">
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<!ENTITY title "Internationalization Policy">
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<!ENTITY % navinclude.docs "INCLUDE">
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]>
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<html>
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&header;
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<h2>Policy</h2>
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<p>When listing countries or other geographic areas in
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documentation, menus, mirror/FTP lists, or other contexts, it is
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important to introduce such lists as "Countries or Regions" so that
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an implied sovereignty claim is neither made nor denied to those
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regions which have their own top level domains.</p>
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<p>The ISO 3166 country codes do not necessarily refer to
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nation-states (e.g. Hong Kong) and should not be treated as such.
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Likewise the "official" ISO 3166 short English names for those
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countries and regions which have top level domains are in some cases
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controversial, and not all of them are commonly used in the software
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industry.</p>
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<p>We follow the guidelines used by IBM, Microsoft, Google, and
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other prominent software companies in their documentation in that
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Taiwan should never be included with a distinction referring to the
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Republic of China, People's Republic of China, or a national flag.
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Interpretation of the word "Taiwan" is in the eye of the beholder,
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and The FreeBSD Project does not endorse any particular position.</p>
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<p>Reference:</p>
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<ol>
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<li><a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/topics/writing/references.jsp">IBM
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Localization guidelines</a></li>
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</ol>
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&footer;
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</body>
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</html>
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