Re: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

Gudmund Areskoug wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 2008/10/30 F Wolff <friedel translate org za>:
>> On Do, 2008-10-30 at 13:27 +0700, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote:
>>> Dear gnome-i18n,
>>>
>>> I believe this is an appropriate place to discuss about cultural
>>> conventions.
>>>
>>> How is a foot interpreted in your culture? Do you have the same
>>> issue I have met? In my culture, showing foot is considered rude.
>>> And the foot is not something to impress people who are totally new
>>> to GNOME.
> 
> just FWIW, the foot is or has been considered rude or even a heavy
> insult (duel fodder) in a number of cultures.

There's little information in that sentence without backing it up with real
names and (hopefully) evidence.

behdad

>> I assume that culturally sensitive graphical design is hard, and I guess
>> you are used to simply taking what you get as a Thai translator. If we
>> say we are an international group, we should try to accommodate this
>> difference as much as we work on text layout, GUI translation, date
>> formats, etc.
> 
> Agree, but partly, like Matej says, it's in the eye of the beholder,
> and partly it's a matter of resources.
> 
> I think no alternative logos will appear until people start submitting them.
> 
>> I think I know of at least one team that doesn't translate and promote
>> Firefox under that brand, since the fox is considered negative in their
>> culture - I guess for Mozilla there is too much in that brand to dilute
>> it, but they lost that team (in as far as I know).
> 
> This is a pity and if true even a bit silly. The firefox isn't a fox,
> it's a panda:
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Panda>
> 
> This is the animal that would turn up all across the field, before
> Mozilla Firefox popularity overwhelmed all the search engines.
> 
> BR,
> Gudmund
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