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<DIV><SPAN class=Unicode lang=sa-Latn
title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration"
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><SPAN
class=408241713-30052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Rather than spend
lots of energy exploring the spelling politics of various towns in various
countries, it might be easier to look for a common
pattern.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Unicode lang=sa-Latn
title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration"
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><SPAN
class=408241713-30052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Unicode lang=sa-Latn
title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration"
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><SPAN
class=408241713-30052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>There are two
possible approaches:</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Unicode lang=sa-Latn
title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration"
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><SPAN
class=408241713-30052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>1. Spell city
names by the "local language rule"</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Unicode lang=sa-Latn
title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration"
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><SPAN
class=408241713-30052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>2. Spell city
names by the "English language convention". In other words, as the name is
most likely to appear in an English language newspaper or magazine
article.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Unicode lang=sa-Latn
title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration"
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><SPAN
class=408241713-30052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Unicode lang=sa-Latn
title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration"
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><SPAN
class=408241713-30052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>zone.tab right
now does the latter. </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Unicode lang=sa-Latn
title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration"
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><SPAN
class=408241713-30052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Unicode lang=sa-Latn
title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration"
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><SPAN
class=408241713-30052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>In fact, you
don't really have much choice; it needs to be #2.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Unicode lang=sa-Latn
title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration"
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><SPAN
class=408241713-30052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Unicode lang=sa-Latn
title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration"
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><SPAN
class=408241713-30052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>#1 works if there
is a single official (or widely accepted) spelling, and that spelling can
reasonably be rendered in the character set used in zone.tab. (I think
that's plain ASCII, as in ISO 646.) If there's more than one official
language, there's a definite problem.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Unicode lang=sa-Latn
title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration"
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><SPAN
class=408241713-30052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Unicode lang=sa-Latn
title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration"
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><SPAN
class=408241713-30052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>For example,
zone.tab says "Europe/Brussels" which is the English language form of the name
of Belgium's capital. If you wanted to use approach #1 (local language
rule) you would *have* to have two entries (Europe/Brussel and Europe/Bruxelles)
because local language politics there can get quite heated and listing only one
of the two is very much unacceptable.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Unicode lang=sa-Latn
title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration"
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><SPAN
class=408241713-30052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Unicode lang=sa-Latn
title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration"
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><SPAN
class=408241713-30052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Switzerland has
four official languages. I don't know how to render Europe/Zurich in all
of them. If you use the local language of the town, you have to put an
umlaut on that u.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Unicode lang=sa-Latn
title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration"
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><SPAN
class=408241713-30052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Unicode lang=sa-Latn
title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration"
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><SPAN
class=408241713-30052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>So to get back to
Calcutta, or Delhi: you can't very well put the local spelling of the name in
zone.tab unless you're using the local script. (Which one would that be --
India has at least six.) Or you could use the official translateration
into the latin alphabet, if there's a plausible transliteration. But that
wouldn't work for European languages that use diacritical marks and have no
standard way of doing without them (German does, but I don't think Rumanian
does, so how would you render the local version of Rumania's
capital?).</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Unicode lang=sa-Latn
title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration"
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><SPAN
class=408241713-30052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Unicode lang=sa-Latn
title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration"
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><SPAN
class=408241713-30052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Conclusion: stick
with #2, which means stick with "Calcutta" (or "Delhi") unless and until a
different spelling becomes generally accepted for English language
documents.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=Unicode lang=sa-Latn
title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration"
style="WHITE-SPACE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><SPAN
class=408241713-30052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
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title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration"
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