Fedora Internationalization: Hacked by Chinese?

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 11:25:40PM -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> It appears, from Ian's blog entry, that the flags were removed as a
> result of pressure from the Chinese government because the included
> flag set included a Taiwanese flag. I can't confirm this because I
> can't actually see that bug.

We pulled the flags for a variety of reasons - the Taiwan/China thing is only
one. Many flags carry huge amounts of historical and political baggage that
are best avoided. Names usually (but not always) don't carry the same baggage
around as people will read a name and interpret it to their belief rather than
the way flags and maps tend to be interpreted.

Alan