On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 08:53:56AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On lun., 2010-02-15 at 12:03 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > > Flags are a poor representation of a particular language, and language > > selection is better handled using locales and content-negotiation > > anyway. [There are many examples where a country speaks many > > languages, and examples where multiple countries have the same > > language, but different dialects.] > > But flags (as an image) /are/ a quick way to identify a locale. Sometime > they don't exactly overlap, thus the above problem, but they are still > useful. Maybe not in content-negotiation, but for example to switch > between locales easily, to switch keyboard mapping, to ask for some > content different from the current locales, etc.
And fwiw major software vendors have managed to overcome this trepidation
and include flag icons for such purposes.
I for one would love to get little flag icons back for displaying my
keyboard layouts, as it's visually much quicker/easier to identify than
looking for a two/three character piece of text on my task bar.
sean
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