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Political neutrality in i18n repo names #1360

@TimothyGu

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@TimothyGu

Hi all, first issue filed here.

I noticed that some i18n repo names, like iojs-tw and iojs-cn, are rather arbitrary and do not follow any existing standards. As an i18n repo, one the language should be specified and not the country in which it is most widely spoken.

For example, Singapore and Malaysia, not exactly related to China politically, use simplified characters more than otherwise. Therefore iojs-cn should be used.

Hong Kong and Macau, territories under control of the PRC, use traditional characters, and iojs-tw is more applicable to them.

In order to solve this problem, I propose to use more neutral terms, like zh-Hans and zh-Hant, both which are standardized by RFC-5646.

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