Re: icons for languages

[Lucas Vieites <lucas asixinformatica com>]

El mar, 13-09-2005 a las 08:28 -0400, Luis Villa escribió:
> On 9/13/05, Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh farsiweb info> 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
> > example, the Azerbaijani speakers in Iran are divided into what their
> > language should be called in Azerbaijani. Some insist on (a translation
> > equivalent to) Turkish, others on Azerbaijani, others on Azerbaijani
> > Turkish, and a few on Azeri.
> 
> 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.]
> 

  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.


> > Sorry Luis, this is not an easy question to answer at all.
> 
> understood.
> 
> Luis
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