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.
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_...