As I said before in the other thread, the names of the cities are spelled correctly according to the conventions of the language in which the game is installed. If you play the game in English, you get the English spellings. Play it in German, and you get the German spellings. Yes, I hope more languages are available in Civ III. But it would be excessively didactic of them to insist on spelling every city name the way it is spelled in its native language regardless of the language the game is installed in. Next I suppose you're going to insist that Russian city names be spelled in Cyrillic, and Chinese city names be written in full Chinese, because after all, they don't write their city names in the Latin alphabet in these countries. This is where such didacticism would logically lead. After all, why insist on correctness only for those Civs who happen to use the Latin alphabet? Wouldn't that be unfair? If we want to be so correct, we must be that correct all around.
But as always, if you don't like the way they do it, you can change it yourself. You can name your cities Cowtown and Gotham City if you want to, and it won't make a whit of difference.
