Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (99 mails)

["Benji Weber" <benji@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2008/9/10 Andreas Demmer <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Benji Weber schrieb am Mittwoch 10 September 2008:
> > A possible bug:  http://bw.uwcs.co.uk/os_flag.png
> > See http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=english+flag
>
> Ok, insistance is the path to success: In the next update, I will use the
> union-jack as flag for the English language. :-)

Well I'm not sure that using flags at all is a good idea. The w3c
recommends against it[0], see their reasoning.

The union flag is not ideal because other languages are spoken in the
United Kingdom - such as Welsh[1]. The St George's cross would
represent English/England, or a combination of the Commonwealth
flag[2] and the flag of the United States of America would cover most
of the English-Speaking world, but I don't really think using a
country to pick a language makes much sense.


[0] http://www.w3.org/TR/i18n-html-tech-lang/#ri20050223.15165421
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_language
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_the_Commonwealth_of_Nations.svg

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Benjamin Weber
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