Re: icons for languages

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

On 09/09/2005, at 2:58 AM, 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?

Flags are political, and they don't map languages well, as another  
listmember said. The language belongs to the people who speak it, not  
to a geographic political entity. However, actually representing  
language in an icon is a challenging task ... how about a speech  
bubble, as suggested, with each language's word for "torrent" or  
whatever word you thought represented your project best?

That way people would see the way the language looks, which I  
personally find fascinating. :)

I hope this is useful.
>

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhÃm  
Viát hÃa phán mám tá do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN