Re: Swaziland becomes Eswatini

Hugh Paterson wrote:

> In my professional writing I have never had an objection to using an
> autonym including its normalized capitalization in its orthography
> (especially when it is a Latin script).

The issue, at least for me, is NOT about being personally unfamiliar or
uncomfortable with the capitalization "eSwatini."

The issue, as I keep saying, is that both ISO 3166 and the government of
the country in question use the capitalization "Eswatini" in
English-language contexts.

Section 3.1.5 says that Description values are not "guaranteed to be in
any particular language." Nevertheless, most region names in the
Registry do happen to be the English names. We use "Germany," for
example, not "Deutschland" or "Allemagne" or "Njemačka" or "ドイツ".

So I am proposing the name as it appears in English-language contexts,
according to the authorities that seem to have a say in this.
 
--
Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org


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