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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jan 11 14:53:25 -0800 
2006 -------
Martin,

Why should we use a name ISO uses even if it is not better or more correct, or
even less correct, than what we have? That makes no sense. For the difference
between the two spellings see also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dhivehi_language, it all seems to be a matter
of transliteration and pronounciation. Note that page also got redirected twice.
It also seems that Maldivian pages prefer Dhivehi over Divehi, and native people
use Dhivehi when writing about their language in English. This to me weighs more
than a wording in ISO. Even the CIA spells it Dhivehi ;-)

Last but not least Dhivehi got approved by our linguist Liz in issue 19333, and
only 5 translations of that entry call it Divehi, but 62 call it Dhivehi.

So as long as no one comes up with evidence that Dhivehi is really wrong, I
won't treat this as a defect.

  Eike

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