----- Original Message ----- From: "Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]" <olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov> To: "tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov" <tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov> Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 4:11 PM Subject: Re: Xinjiang
As I understand it, there are two groups (Han and Uyghur) in two different current time zone regions ("Asia/Urumqi" and "Asia/Kashgar") using different times.
Although a better transliteration of the "beautiful pasture" city would be Ürümqi, the version without diacritics (Urumqi) is POSIX compatible and is more or less acceptable. 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. Are there really any larger or more known cities in these regions? Oscar van Vlijmen