Version: (using KDE KDE 3.0.3) Installed from: Mandrake RPMs OS: Linux In Country select, there is an option named "Tibet". That hurts we Chinese very much. As all we know, Tibet is a province of China. It CANNOT be singled out as an individual COUNTRY. The situation is not the same as Taiwan. Tibet must be removed from the list.
Lhasa is now listed as Country=China, Province=Tibet in Cities.dat.
The same rule might be appied on KDE_3_1_BRANCH, please.
Subject: Re: Tibet as country name Change made on KDE_3_1>BRANCH also.
I guess this hurts Tibetan people just as much, but probably there are too few left to complain. Sorry, couldn't resist.
Subject: Re: Tibet as country name Kstars is not a vehicle for political expression, it is an astronomy program. Currently, there is no country called Tibet. Tibet is a province of China, so calling Lhasa's country "Tibet" was indeed a factual error; i.e., a bug. The day Tibet wins independence from China, we will change our geographic database to reflect the new reality. Anyway, this is not a KStars-specific issue; check the list of countries available in the "Country/Region & Language" KControl module. China is listed. Taiwan is listed. Tibet is not. As a KDE app, it is only right that we remain consistent with other core KDE apps. > Sorry, couldn't resist. I rather doubt it. Jason
Tibet will not be separated from China, from past to the future. And, it's better that we only discuss technical problems here. No political issues, please.
"Tibet" is at least the proper name of a former (and hopefully future) country. The official Chinese name in English of the current province is "Tibetan Autonomous Region" - abbreviated to TAR. So, if there is so much concern to make KStars Cities.dat "correct" in, it should be: Country=China and Province=TAR or Province=Tibetan Autonomous Region
When we have Province names for all the Chinese cities in our database, we'll add them. On Sunday 09 September 2007 12:14:55 am Chris Fynn wrote: [bugs.kde.org quoted mail]