230867 - The name of "Republic of Macedonia" appears as "Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 230866

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Ivan Stojmirov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

It seems that there are no problems with the name of the language "Macedonian".
Yet, the name of the country appears as "Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of"
instead of "Republic of Macedonia" or simply "Macedonia".



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
The name "Macedonia, F.Y.R. Of" appears in:

/xpfe/global/resources/locale/en-US/regionNames.properties, line 64
/toolkit/locale/regionNames.properties, line 64
/l10n/nscp/en-GB/chome/en-GB/locale/en-GB/global/regionNames.properties, line 63
/l10n/nscp/en-CA/chome/en-CA/locale/en-CA/global/regionNames.properties, line 63




Expected Results:  
The name of the country to apear as "Macedonia, Republic of"

Comment 1

[Gilles Durys]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 230866 ***

Comment 2

[Misa Popovic]

I would like to point out that the freedom (and right) of states to be
recognized with their constitutional names, is guaranteed with the UN Charter.
It was aditionally confirmed with a resolution (i will provide the resolution
number soon) of the UN General Assembly. Because of the widespread affirmation
by all (exept one - Greece) members of the UN, it is considered not only as a
multilateral agreement but as international custom law, which means that
everyone is obligated to it, exept the "permanent objector" (Greece).

I am asking the Mozilla developers to recognize the problem as being made
political. Since the legal situation is clear, although being ignored by both
sides and the international community, the right thing to do, if Mozilla doesn't
want to get involved and take sides, is to folow the law and address Macedonia
as "Republic of Macedonia". It will be a small contribution of Mozilla to the
practice of the fragile international law.

Regarding ISO, I am convinced that similar actions will be asked from them.