[PATCH] Change English locale of Kiev/Kyiv to match the internationally recognizable name.

[Olena Khomenko <reg.shalena@gmail.com>]

Dear all,
Change the English name of the Ukrainian capital to Kyiv (not Kiev),
to match the internationally recognizable name.

In June 2019, at the request of the U.S. Department of State, the
Embassy of Ukraine in the USA, and Ukrainian organizations in the
United States, the name «Kyiv» was officially approved by the U.S.
Board on Geographic Names as the only correct name, which resulted in
the entire federal government of the United States starting to use the
new name [1].

Since the start of the campaign #KyivNotKiev, which has been launched
by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine [2], dozens of airports
and airlines have switched to using the name Kyiv, even before the
International Air Transport Association officially adopted a new name.
[3]

At the end of June 2020, Facebook agreed to transliterate Kyiv’s name
from the Ukrainian language. On September 16, 2020, the
English-language Wikipedia changed the article’s title about Ukraine’s
capital from «Kiev» to «Kyiv» [4].

Many major world media, including the BBC, The Guardian, Associated
Press, The Wall Street Journal, The Globe and Mail, The Washington
Post, Financial Times, The Economist, The Daily Telegraph, The New
York Times [5], and other foreign English-language media are using
«Kyiv» instead of «Kiev» in their articles.

The name cannot be changed in the upstream project (tzdata) because it
is treated there as an ID, not as a display name (as explained by
Lester Caine in [6]).

[1] https://geonames.nga.mil/gns/html/fnc.html
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20191125105759/https://mfa.gov.ua/en/page/open/id/5418
[3] https://www.iata.org/en/publications/directories/code-search/?airport.search=Kyiv
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv
[5] https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-society/2820866-the-new-york-times-starts-using-kyiv-instead-of-kiev.html
[6] http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2020-November/029503.html

Best regards,
Olena Khomenko

diff -Nru tzdata-2020d/debian/changelog tzdata-2020d/debian/changelog
--- tzdata-2020d/debian/changelog	2020-10-21 23:21:30.000000000 +0300
+++ tzdata-2020d/debian/changelog	2020-11-30 18:02:08.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+tzdata (2020d-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * Change English locale of Kiev/Kyiv to match internationally
+    recognizable name.
+
+ -- Olena Khomenko <reg.shalena@gmail.com>  Mon, 30 Nov 2020 18:02:08 +0200
+
 tzdata (2020d-1) unstable; urgency=high
 
   * New upstream version, affecting the following future timestamp:
diff -Nru tzdata-2020d/debian/po/en.po tzdata-2020d/debian/po/en.po
--- tzdata-2020d/debian/po/en.po	2020-10-11 16:50:36.000000000 +0300
+++ tzdata-2020d/debian/po/en.po	2020-11-30 17:49:03.000000000 +0200
@@ -2723,7 +2723,7 @@
 #. Translators: do not translate underscores. You can use spaces instead.
 #: ../tzdata.templates:9001
 msgid "Kiev"
-msgstr "Kiev"
+msgstr "Kyiv"
 
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