Re: How about using national flags instead of text in debian.org?

2012-02-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 12:12:34PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > to try to follow a recognized international standard as closely as > possible. Issues around nationality, language, and countries are > political landmines, and it's very easy to blunder into an argument that > one never intended and

Re: How about using national flags instead of text in debian.org?

2012-02-05 Thread Russ Allbery
"Andrew M.A. Cater" writes: > A long time ago we lost at least one good developer on precisely this > issue: Herbert Xu resigned because of Chinese/Taiwanese flag issues, if > I remember correctly. It was originally about the iso-codes package and the controversy over exactly how to deal with TW

Re: How about using national flags instead of text in debian.org?

2012-02-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 10:32:43AM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: >Hi, > > * Hyun-Gwan Seo [2012-02-05 09:10:53 CET]: > > How about using national flags? > > I think that national flags are much more helpful and eidetic than text. > > Flags represent nations and not language. Having the Germ

Re: How about using national flags instead of text in debian.org?

2012-02-05 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi, * Hyun-Gwan Seo [2012-02-05 09:10:53 CET]: > How about using national flags? > I think that national flags are much more helpful and eidetic than text. Flags represent nations and not language. Having the German flag for the German language is mildly insulting for myself because I am fr

Re: How about using national flags instead of text in debian.org?

2012-02-05 Thread Teemu Likonen
* Aron Xu [2012-02-05 16:31:20 +0800] wrote: > On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 16:10, Hyun-Gwan Seo wrote: >> Official debian website is translated many languages. (i.e. german, >> korean, français and so on) If I want to see a translated german >> page, click the 'Deutsch' at the bottom of the web site.

Re: How about using national flags instead of text in debian.org?

2012-02-05 Thread Aron Xu
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 16:10, Hyun-Gwan Seo wrote: > Hello! > My name is Hyun-Gwan Seo from Republic of Korea. > > Official debian website is translated many languages. (i.e. german, korean, > français and so on) > If I want to see a translated german page, click the 'Deutsch' at the bottom > of t