Hi. My 2 cents....> Hi All, especially Christoph and Ivan (my website refresh buddies), > > My attention has just been drawn to this site/icon that is supposed to > be the cure to the never-ending search for a solution to flags vs. > globe, etc to signify a provided choice of languages.
Every multilingual site I've ever visited which uses an icon uses flags. They either have separate flags for each language (usually no more than around 4 in that case), a pair of crossed flags which, when clicked, provide a drop-down of the available languages (or locales) or text and a drop-down (no icon). > > http://www.languageicon.org/ > > http://www.languageicon.org/examples.php Looked at the links. IMO the icon is ridiculous. > > I would not have intuitively recognized this icon as having anything to > do with languages (it is supposed to symbolize a tongue in a mouth, so > why isn't it round-shaped?. Hmm), but I think a movement to get a > universal icon is basically a good idea. > > Have you ever come across this icon anywhere? > I did a brief search but did not find it used on a coin collectors site > where it supposedly had been adopted. > http://languageicon.blogspot.com/2008/09/colnect-uses-language-icon.html > > What do you all think of such an icon? I'm certainly not saying we > should use it (esp if it is completely unknown and possibly non-intuitive). > > I've set the "Reply to" to the UX list because I see this as a usability > thing, but I wrote to both Website and UX because both teams might be as > curious as me about this language icon idea. > > Liz > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] -- Alex Fisher Co-Lead, CD-ROM Project OpenOffice.org Marketing Community Contact Australia/New Zealand http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/
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