Africa/Asmera / Africa/Asmara
Feedback from one of our users, forwarded with permission. I've checked with the usual suspects (i.e., diplomatic services' web sites), which confirm the Asmara spelling. - Klaus ----- Forwarded message from Zafer Aydogan <zafer@aydogan.de> ----- the city name of Asmera has changed to Asmara. Shall we update the name in the zoneinfo file ? /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/ Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asmera Zafer. ----- End forwarded message -----
Klaus Klein <kleink@netbsd.org> writes:
Feedback from one of our users, forwarded with permission. I've checked with the usual suspects (i.e., diplomatic services' web sites), which confirm the Asmara spelling.
Thanks for the info. I assume the spelling changed around the time Eritrea became independent in May 1993? If so, we've had the "wrong" name since we originally created the tz database entry in November 1993, and since "Asmera" dominates "Asmera" handily in Google and Altavista I'm inclined to change the Zone name (putting in a backward compatibility link) in my next proposed patch unless there's strong sentiment otherwise.
I just spot-checked a bunch of atlases and other references from 1897 to the present. Almost all of them use the spelling "Asmara". Only a couple of recent ones (1990s) gave "Asmera" as a variant spelling. I suppose the name in Amharic script is unchanged, so if anything has changed, it's the transliteration method. -- Gwillim Law ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Eggert" <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU>
Thanks for the info. I assume the spelling changed around the time Eritrea became independent in May 1993?
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