[Buddha-l] Microsoft's curious aversion

[Bernie Simon]

I thought the list might be interested in this curious case of 
political correctness.

> Microsoft has barred the use of the Bhutanese government’s official 
> term for the Bhutanese language, Dzongkha, in any of its products, 
> citing that the term had affiliations with the Dalai Lama. In an 
> internal memorandum, Microsoft employees were told not to use the term 
> Dzongkha in any Microsoft software, language lists or promotional 
> materials since “Doing so implies affiliation with the Dalai Lama, 
> which is not acceptable to the government of China. In this instance, 
> replace “Dzongkha” with ‘Tibetan - Bhutan’.”

> The use of the word Dzongkha was graded by Microsoft as a 
> ’ship-stopper’, which means that a product may not be produced in any 
> form until the problem is resolved. Microsoft has four levels of error 
> severity, ship-stopper being the most severe.

http://pinyin.info/news/?p=181

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