>We actually have the same problem with other countries as well.
For reasons of standardization, it would really make things simpler if all agreed to either (a) always use English names, or (b) always use the local names. (In the latter case, systems of transliteration have to be agreed upon, for example, for the cyrillic or arabic alphabet.) Personally, I would prefer local names - and there seems to be a growing tendency, World-wide, to do just this.
However, I consider it very difficult to implement this in the UT forum.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
