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Yep, we call him Kadhafi in French (and this time I checked the spelling).

• mcv 8y ago
  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.
  • toomanybeersies 8y ago
    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-expression-to-search-for-gadaffi https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5365283/regular-expressi...
  • Koshkin 8y ago
    It's such a mess. We might be better off just translating the damn names (like they did in the remote past)...
    • fapjacks 8y ago
      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.