Xinjiang

[Petr Baudis]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 05:08:47PM +0100, OvV_HN wrote:
> Although Kashgar comes in the neighborhood of the actual
> pronunciation, it hurts the eye.
> Kaxgar would be better or else the Chinese pinyin transliteration
> Kashí, or without diacritics: Kashi.
> I would vote for Kaxgar.

Kashgar is much more common in actual usage than Kaxgar, also being the
primary name on Wikipedia and generally getting more results on Google;
I believe using Kaxgar would only increase confusion here.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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