[tz] Kyiv

Philip Paeps philip at trouble.is
Fri Dec 8 17:50:06 UTC 2017


On 2017-12-07 22:07:19 (+0200), gocdoms gocdoms wrote:
>City Kyiv is not Kiev.
>The *founder* of Kyiv is *Kyi*. Not Kie!
>Please see attached picture.

This already came up this week.

http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2017-December/025680.html

Just as "København" is called "Copenhagen" in English and "Warszawa" is 
called "Warsaw", the English name for "Київ" is "Kiev".  The tz database 
is not the right place to campaign for changing the names of cities in 
English.

Philip

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Philip Paeps
Senior Reality Engineer
Ministry of Information


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