On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:28 +0100, sean finney wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 08:53:56AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > On lun., 2010-02-15 at 12:03 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > Flags are a poor representation of a particular language, and language > > > selection is better handled using locales and content-negotiation > > > anyway. [There are many examples where a country speaks many > > > languages, and examples where multiple countries have the same > > > language, but different dialects.] > > > > But flags (as an image) /are/ a quick way to identify a locale. Sometime > > they don't exactly overlap, thus the above problem, but they are still > > useful. Maybe not in content-negotiation, but for example to switch > > between locales easily, to switch keyboard mapping, to ask for some > > content different from the current locales, etc. > > And fwiw major software vendors have managed to overcome this trepidation > and include flag icons for such purposes.
I would love to get some comments from: - people leaving in a country with many official languages. - people leaving in a country which official language is the same to the one spoken in another language (or at least quite similar). Think of Ireland and UK ; Canada and USA ; Canada and France ; Spain and Argentina/Peru/Uruguay/Chile... People from Belgium are really nice people, but they certainly don't want to spend their life licking on one of the Dutch/French/German flag. Using flag for language can be perceived as arrogant for those country who use the same language as another [larger] country. > I for one would love to get little flag icons back for displaying my > keyboard layouts, as it's visually much quicker/easier to identify than > looking for a two/three character piece of text on my task bar. Keyboards seems to be quite country-specific (not completely though). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1266448275.4493.2670.ca...@solid.paris.klabs.be