Hi all, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Kazunari Hirano wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:59 PM, sophie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Gaute Hvoslef Kvalnes wrote: >>>> I'm no fan of using flags to represent languages. There is no 1:1 >>>> relationship between countries and languages. For example, Spanish is >>>> widely used outside of Spain, and Spain itself has more languages than >>>> only Spanish. >>> Yes, this is something we have always avoid to represent the different >>> NLC projects, this is not countries, but languages :) >> Right! No flag please. > > If I understand correctly (based on public previous experimental > designs), everyone sees the same flag, which is not supposed to be a > country flag but a generic symbol for localized versions; kind of a > generic icon for the native-lang concept.
Great, I was in the train and was not able to see anything in fact, the page didn't displayerd so I just react to the flag, sorry if I was misunderstanding it. > > While it would probably be more politically correct to use the NLC logo > http://native-lang.openoffice.org/ for this purpose, I personally find > that a flag conveys the meaning more directly, at least to me! But I'm > certainly not opposed to using the NLC logo if the majority see even the > "generic" flag unacceptable. It would be very nice but may be difficult? Any way thanks a lot to Alexandro and Ivan for this implementation, this is a great work :) Kind regards Sophie --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
