Google changes Palestinian location from 'Territories' to 'Palestine'

Re:Google changes Palestinian location from 'Territories' to... by johneth on Friday May 03, 2013 @02:40PM (#5651796)

You do realise that however they refer to the region ('Palestine' or 'Palestinian Territories'), they're making a political statement.

Their reasoning (following the example of multiple international organisations - including the UN, ICANN, and ISO) is sound.

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Re:Google changes Palestinian location from 'Territories' to... by mpyne on Friday May 03, 2013 @03:02PM (#5651949)

And it's not just Google that's affected either.

Imagine making a desktop environment and e.g. showing a world map to select your time zone.

Or having a list of countries & regions to assist the user with localization. Seemingly any list of countries you show will "make a political statement" to someone out there. KDE, for example, had many bugs filed about the naming used for what the ISO calls the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia_naming_dispute

http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/country_codes/country_...

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Re:Google changes Palestinian location from 'Territories' to... by praptak on Friday May 03, 2013 @03:23PM (#5652096)

Redhat actually removed Taiwan from KDE's list of locales to please PRC: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/10/6/173153/329

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