<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Eggert</b> <<a href="mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu">eggert@cs.ucla.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
A much bigger example is Asia/Calcutta. "Calcutta" is still somewhat<br>more popular than "Kolkata" in English, according to Google, but the<br>margin is much closer.<br><br>There's no hurry, but I have been thinking of changing it to
<br>Asia/Delhi. These days Delhi is a bit larger than Calcutta/Kolkata<br>anyway. And nobody is messing with Delhi's spelling. Yet.<br></blockquote></div><br><br>I am an ex-Delhi resident, and one who still has family there. There are calls to rename the city "Dilli", which is how it is pronounced phonetically locally, and written in Hindi. I have not seen any official moves on this, yet, but I am afraid it may not be long. The pressure to prove that we Dilli-walas are as anti-colonial as our neighbours is hard to resist.
<br><br>I would have suggested Asia/Allahabad, being the official standard (I believe) of IST, but there are issues here, too. Some locals wish it renamed "<span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space: normal; text-decoration: none;" lang="sa-Latn" lang="sa-Latn">
<i><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Ilâhâbâd</span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></i>", being the phonetic spelling, and others want it to be Prayag, which is the older (Hindu) name of the spot.
<br><br>I am new on this list, just wanted to muddy the waters with too much info :-)<br><br>-- <br>Sanjeev "ghane" Gupta<br></span>