April 29, 2015
2:36 p.m.
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015, at 01:49, Paul Eggert wrote:
If memory serves that was Arthur David Olson's decision when he was maintainer, but I can share my two cents. In English, the name "Kolkata" is far more common than "Calcutta" nowadays, so a name change was in order.
It seems that this privileges India's ability to define the English names of its cities, as a country with English as an official language, vs other countries' ability to do so.