Taiwan listed as a Province of China
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Distribution (run cat /etc/os-release
):
NAME="Pop!_OS"
VERSION="20.10"
ID=pop
ID_LIKE="ubuntu debian"
PRETTY_NAME="Pop!_OS 20.10"
VERSION_ID="20.10"
HOME_URL="https://pop.system76.com"
SUPPORT_URL="https://support.system76.com"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://system76.com/privacy"
VERSION_CODENAME=groovy
UBUNTU_CODENAME=groovy
LOGO=distributor-logo-pop-os
Related Application and/or Package Version (run apt policy $PACKAGE NAME
):
Issue/Bug Description:
During the initial installation procedure when choosing country, Taiwan is listed as a Province of China[a]. I'm aware this is an ISO 3166-1-related problem. However, Taiwan has not always been listed as such before, and can certainly be changed to simply Taiwan, which is a more sensible and way less ridiculous alternative. My guess is that some people made a conscious choice to make this happen as I'm sure an average Linux user would not fail to see what's going on here. Unfortunately, anyone who accepts this result is willingly or unwillingly replicating that conscious choice of listing Taiwan as a Province of China, currently under the rule of CCP, an authoritarian regime. I won't be surprised if some toddler who uses Linux can spot discrimination here, as of the four regions/countries [中國(China)/香港(Hong Kong)/新加坡(Singapore)/台灣(Taiwan)] listed in the same window, only Taiwan is given the "a Province of" treatment.
Steps to reproduce (if you know):
Run Pop!_OS (version 20.10) from a bootable USB drive (live disk), and you'll be greeted with the installation procedure popup where Taiwan is listed as "Taiwan, a Province of Chian[a]" along with other countries such as 中國, 香港(Hong Kong), which is not a country but a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (HKSAR), and 新加坡 (Singapore).
Expected behavior:
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