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Prys Lewis
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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
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