<div dir="ltr"><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">It gets even more complicated in places of disputed sovereignty, where the choice of name makes a political statement and speech is not as free as it usually is in the West. In the PRC, it would actually be unlawful to put the name <span style="font-weight:normal"><span lang="zh-hant">中華民國 (or </span></span><span><span lang="zh-Hans">中华民国) on a map, while in Taiwan, it might be lawful to put </span></span><span><span lang="zh-Hant">臺灣, but would be regarded as politically suspicious. </span></span><span><span lang="zh-Hans">中华台北 is an ambiguous fiction that satisfies nobody, and WTO's </span></span></span></font><span style="font-size:1rem"><span lang="zh-Hant"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">臺澎金馬個別關稅領域 is no better.</span></font><br><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size:1rem"><span lang="zh-Hant"><font size="2">Some problems don't have good solutions.<br><br></font></span></span></div><span style="font-size:1rem"><span lang="zh-Hant"></span></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Simon Poole <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simon@poole.ch" target="_blank">simon@poole.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
As an inhabitant of one the countries mentioned with multiple official<br>
languages may I quickly chip in: our previous solution was to simply<br>
leave the name tag empty given that stuffing the 4 official language<br>
variants in to the name tags was rather unwieldy and even so none of<br>
them are actually the countries real official name (see<br>
<a href="http://official-name-abbreviations-meaning.all-about-switzerland.info/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://official-name-<wbr>abbreviations-meaning.all-<wbr>about-switzerland.info/</a>) .<br>
<br>
This proved impossible to maintain due to fiddling mappers living in a<br>
neighbour country to the north, so to get a bit of peace and quiet (we<br>
would have been quite happy with using English on the standard<br>
rendering), we opted for the current ungainly solution.<br>
<br>
The real simple solution would be to provide a tag with a list of the<br>
countries official languages and then allow the renderer to choose from<br>
them in the cases when you want a non-translated name value (and as said<br>
leave the name tag empty).<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Simon<br>
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