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Re:A military exercise staged 35 years ago almost triggered ... by sacado2 on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @06:35AM (#18541442)
Yep, we call him Kadhafi in French (and this time I checked the spelling).
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Re:A military exercise staged 35 years ago almost triggered ... by mcv on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @07:33AM (#18541781)
I notice Wikipedia now spells it as Gaddafi. I thought it used to be Khaddafi in English.

Interestingly, Dutch Wikipedia now calls him al-Qadhafi.

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Re:A military exercise staged 35 years ago almost triggered ... by toomanybeersies on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @08:29AM (#18542091)
It's a transliteration of Arabic. There's no single correct transliteration so it depends on the publisher as to what spelling they use.

Here's a very fun Stack Overflow question about using a regex to match the different spellings: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5365283/regular-expressi...

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Re:A military exercise staged 35 years ago almost triggered ... by Koshkin on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @09:37AM (#18542571)
It's such a mess. We might be better off just translating the damn names (like they did in the remote past)...
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Re:A military exercise staged 35 years ago almost triggered ... by fapjacks on Friday November 30, 2018 @12:40AM (#18567003)
Yes, but if we did that, the news would get confusing as we tried to sort out which "Grand King King of the Warrior Kings" they were talking about.
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