[tz] Propose to improve where to find rules for "Indian/Kerguelen"

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At 23:30 15-05-2012, Mark Davis ☕ wrote:
>I firmly agree. Stability is far more important 
>than fiddling with the identifier names.

Yes.

>After all, the identifier names are really not 
>for human consumption; they need translation for 
>anything but English, and even for English need 
>some tweaking. And if people want to have 
>different groupings, that is easy to do. In 
>CLDR, for example, we group according to the 
>United Nations M.49 standard for continents and 
>subcontinents. (Cf 
>http://unicode.org/repos/cldr-tmp/trunk/diff/supplemental/territory_containment_un_m_49.html)

Some of the countries listed in Eastern Africa 
under M.49 are actually in another sub-continent 
in terms of political sub-continents.  Greenland 
is part of North America and politically within 
Europe.  Cyprus is categorized under Asia.

If a rule of the thumb was needed, it could be to 
pick the continent where people in the region 
think they are.  It avoids the "how many continents are there" question.

Regards,
-sm