[mousecorkkey]

Are you referring to Gaddafi?

[ben_w]

Given his name isn’t really written in the Latin alphabet (“معمر محمد أبو منيار القذافي”, according to Wikipedia), all these variations are equally [in]correct.

[sacado2]

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

[mcv]

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]

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...

[Koshkin]

It's such a mess. We might be better off just translating the damn names (like they did in the remote past)...

[fapjacks]

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.