Want to thank everyone for their suggestions. Here's where I landed: English first. That's the majority of the userbase. All other languages, sorted by their English name, but displayed in their native language.
I really wanted to go with the region break-up, but it doesn't create exclusive groups: French is North American and European, English could be in every region. And we're not filtering any content by country-- French is French. So either list languages again in every region that they appear (as Apple does), or pick the primary region, which seems very debatable. I should have mentioned that these are device settings, so stuff like IP address filtering and getting clever with browsers doesn't apply. I'm also somewhat limited in space, otherwise the suggestion to put the english name of the language in parenthesis next to any non-Phoenician based languages is a good one. The flags are nice, but better at representing countries than languages. I suspect Apple included those flags more to spiff up a dull list than to resolve any usability issue (hence the glossiness). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42561 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
