Re: icons for languages

2005-09-19 Thread Christopher Fynn
Roozbeh Pournader wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 17:07 +0200, Gudmund Areskoug wrote: Got any better ideas for graphics/icon? Yes, flags are better. They are less controversial than maps I agree, while not wholly uncontroversial flags are mere symbols - while maps may imply the

Re: icons for languages

2005-09-16 Thread Clytie Siddall
On 14/09/2005, at 7:27 PM, Gudmund Areskoug wrote: back to square one, then... A hard nut to crack. I guess only personal settings can solve what flag (or any kind of icon) each person wants to use, then, in case any flag at all exists for the language. I would still strongly advise

Re: icons for languages

2005-09-14 Thread Gudmund Areskoug
Hi Roozbeh, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 17:07 +0200, Gudmund Areskoug wrote: Got any better ideas for graphics/icon? Yes, flags are better. They are less controversial than maps :) back to square one, then... A hard nut to crack. I guess only personal settings can

Re: icons for languages

2005-09-13 Thread Gudmund Areskoug
Hi, Luis Villa wrote: If I wanted to put little icons next to the languages here: http://torrent.gnome.org/ Would flags be appropriate/inappropriate? Anything I should be aware of if I try to do that? Are there any other decent ways to do signify language visually? just an idea, probably

Re: icons for languages

2005-09-13 Thread Luis Villa
On 9/13/05, Roozbeh Pournader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip expected response on flags Are there any other decent ways to do signify language visually? The name of the language in its own language (and script) may be the best thing to do. But even that may be controversial sometimes. For

Re: icons for languages

2005-09-13 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 08:28 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: How often is this a problem? i.e., if I wanted to do that for any of the (currently) 14 languages here: http://torrent.gnome.org/ would that be a problem? [The current solution, 'just use english', seems really suboptimal.] I don't

Re: icons for languages

2005-09-13 Thread Tor Lillqvist
On ti, 2005-09-13 at 14:58 +0200, Gudmund Areskoug wrote: How about a tiny map, indicating the region where that language is traditionally spoken, Nah, doesn't work. Where does one draw the line what's traditional and what's non-traditional? This opens up a whole new dimension of cans of

Re: icons for languages

2005-09-13 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 14:58 +0200, Gudmund Areskoug wrote: How about a tiny map, indicating the region where that language is traditionally spoken, with the language name in its own script(s)? Region maps are also controversial, specially when the language has no nation behind it. Kurdish is

Re: icons for languages

2005-09-13 Thread Gudmund Areskoug
Hi Roozbeh, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 14:58 +0200, Gudmund Areskoug wrote: How about a tiny map, indicating the region where that language is traditionally spoken, with the language name in its own script(s)? Region maps are also controversial, specially when the

Re: icons for languages

2005-09-13 Thread Lucas Vieites
El mar, 13-09-2005 a las 08:28 -0400, Luis Villa escribió: On 9/13/05, Roozbeh Pournader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip expected response on flags Are there any other decent ways to do signify language visually? The name of the language in its own language (and script) may be the

Re: icons for languages

2005-09-13 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 16:01 +0200, Gudmund Areskoug wrote: I know, that's why I indicated region, not country. No matter what one thinks of e. g. Greater Kurdistan, it's hard to dispute there's currently a substantial group of people living and speaking Kurdish in a given geographic

Re: icons for languages

2005-09-13 Thread Gudmund Areskoug
Hi again, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 16:01 +0200, Gudmund Areskoug wrote: I know, that's why I indicated region, not country. No matter what one thinks of e. g. Greater Kurdistan, it's hard to dispute there's currently a substantial group of people living and speaking

Re: icons for languages

2005-09-13 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Roozbeh Pournader wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 16:01 +0200, Gudmund Areskoug wrote: I know, that's why I indicated region, not country. No matter what one thinks of e. g. Greater Kurdistan, it's hard to dispute there's currently a substantial group of people living and speaking Kurdish in

Re: icons for languages

2005-09-13 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 16:35 +0100, Simos Xenitellis wrote: Danilo, would you please come to my aid? I guess you have a similar problem in the areas that made the former Yugoslavia. I suppose you refer to FYROM which oftentimes causes issues with Greece due to claims for affinity with ancient

Re: icons for languages

2005-09-13 Thread David Lodge
Quoting Lucas Vieites [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In this case I would just use the name of the language in that language, eg: Dutch - Nederlands, German - Deutsch, Spanish - Español, etc. Just a personal opinion, though. This does seem to be the easiest and least controversial mechanism. The only

Re: icons for languages

2005-09-13 Thread Lucas Vieites
El mar, 13-09-2005 a las 13:03 -0400, David Lodge escribió: Quoting Lucas Vieites [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In this case I would just use the name of the language in that language, eg: Dutch - Nederlands, German - Deutsch, Spanish - Español, etc. Just a personal opinion, though. This does

Re: icons for languages

2005-09-13 Thread Kostas Papadimas
Στις 13-09-2005, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 18:01 +0200, ο/η Арангел Ангов έγραψε: And yeah, the name is Republic of Macedonia. You can call your country whatever name you like (Republic of Utopia, Atlantis, Cornocupia, Macedonia, etc). Please don't start a nationalist flame war in GTP... Greetings

Re: icons for languages

2005-09-13 Thread Арангел Ангов
Kostas Papadimas wrote: Please don't start a nationalist flame war in GTP... Okay, sure, let's not. Cheers, Arangel ___ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n

Re: icons for languages

2005-09-09 Thread Lucas Vieites
El jue, 08-09-2005 a las 21:16 +0200, Jordi Mallach escribió: On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:28:25PM -0400, Luis Villa wrote: Would flags be appropriate/inappropriate? Anything I should be aware of if I try to do that? Are there any other decent ways to do signify language visually? In

icons for languages

2005-09-08 Thread Luis Villa
If I wanted to put little icons next to the languages here: http://torrent.gnome.org/ Would flags be appropriate/inappropriate? Anything I should be aware of if I try to do that? Are there any other decent ways to do signify language visually? Luis

Re: icons for languages

2005-09-08 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Luis Villa wrote: If I wanted to put little icons next to the languages here: http://torrent.gnome.org/ Would flags be appropriate/inappropriate? Anything I should be aware of if I try to do that? Are there any other decent ways to do signify language visually? Luis

Re: icons for languages

2005-09-08 Thread dooteo
Hi, On og., 2005-09-08 at 21:16 +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote: On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:28:25PM -0400, Luis Villa wrote: Would flags be appropriate/inappropriate? Anything I should be aware of if I try to do that? Are there any other decent ways to do signify language visually? In