On 11/19/19 2:01 PM, Guy Harris wrote:
Perhaps Calcutta -> Kolkata, although that one may not have been as politically sensitive as this one.
Another one is Godthab->Nuuk, a renaming that is long overdue, as the consensus English-language spelling changed years ago. I'd rather follow Calcutta's precedent, which is to change the name with a backwards-compatibility link. Proposed patch attached, and installed into the development version. Kiev->Kyiv could be handled similarly, though two of my three most-used news sources (Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Economist) write "Kiev" so caution is advised. The New York Times switched from "Godthab" to "Nuuk" in the mid-1980s, so if it switches from "Kiev" to "Kyiv" later this year and we follow a similar timetable, we could rename Europe/Kiev in the year 2053 or so. (I'm not seriously proposing this; just giving a little perspective.) For what it's worth, the mid-1980s spelling change was in response to what the New York Times called "militant Eskimos, and everybody who wants to avoid offending them". See: Borders W. Eskimos are showing new militancy. New York Times. 1982-03-07. https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/07/world/eskimos-are-showing-new-militancy.h...