Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-summit (64 mails)

[Bryen M Yunashko <suserocks@xxxxxxxxx>]

For English, I request we use US flag.  We feel weird when we have to
click on a British flag.  :-)

Bryen


On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 14:42 -0500, Ricardo Chung wrote:
> El mié, 04-04-2012 a las 21:26 +0300, Athanasios-Ilias Rousinopoulos
> escribió:
> > Hello Summit-Geekos!
> >
> > Well it's too dificult to find the appropiate flag but instead of this
> > i suggest using this term
> >
> > " Espanol (Castellano/Latino) "
> >
> > In order to "cover" all the spanish-spoken countries.
> I would not worry to much about using Spain flag icon because it is used
> in many websites meaning spanish-castillian language instead country. In
> some websites use the "ES" word to mean Español (Spanish). Strictly
> speaking Español is not a language but a people native from Spain. It is
> used currently to mean a spanish-castillian speaker. So don't worry
> about these details. Go for "ES" or Spain flag because it is wider
> accepted.
>
> In any case Castillan=Castellano would be the right language and more
> extended worldwide and in Latinamerica. 
>
> > As for Catalan , Euskadi and Gallego these are not a language but a
> > dialect which are spoken only in some "states" of Spain.
> Catalan is considered a language despite word similarities with Castillan, 
> French and Latin.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language
>
> Euskera or Basque is from another world language because Its uniqueness
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_language
>
> Galician or Gallego is debating to be recognized as language not dialect
> because some idiosincratic stuffs.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galician_language
>
> > 2012/4/4 Shayon Mukherjee <opensuse@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > > On Apr 4, 2012, at 12:49 PM, Jos Poortvliet <jos@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Wednesday 04 April 2012 12:08:04 Shayon Mukherjee wrote:
> > > > > On Apr 4, 2012, at 9:12 AM, Bryen M Yunashko <suserocks@xxxxxxxxx> 
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 12:23 +0200, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> > > > > > > On Tuesday 03 April 2012 22:52:54 Shayon Mukherjee wrote:
> > > > > > > > Hello Ppl,
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > I am wondering what flags should we be using for Es and En on the
> > > > > > > > website? Its for the links to the respective language / site  
> > > > > > > > content.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Just pick what's included in the distro - there are flags in
> > > > > > > /usr/share/locale/l10n/
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > :D
> > > > > > > :
> > > > > > > > Thanks
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I think Shayon is trying to come up with a "politically-correct"
> > > > > > solution.  In general, the obvious flag to use for "Spanish" is Spain.
> > > > > > But our particular target here is Latin America, or more specifically,
> > > > > > Central America.  So, Spain would  not be a good flag in this case, yet
> > > > > > there's several countries, so picking one might offend another.  :-)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > So, Shayon's aim is to pick a flag (or some other icon) that is not
> > > > > > country-specific or potentially offensive.
> > > > >
> > > > > Yep exactly :) . Thanks Bryen !
> > > >
> > > > I actually got that and would suggest to go with the flag we've picked 
> > > > for
> > > > the spanish language... 'cuz that's been thought of already. We call the
> > > > language 'spanish' too, right, despite the equally politically-incorrect
> > > > 'spain' in there :D
> > > >
> > > > Go to YaST's language settings. There's no 'Mexican' language. There's
> > > > Catalan and that other language in Spain but they gave those Spanish 
> > > > flags
> > > > too... So I think we should go for the Spanish flag, or if you really 
> > > > think
> > > > ppl won't like it, go for the letters ES. Doesn't make much difference
> > > > (stands for 'espana', right?) but might make some feel better :S
> > > >
> > > > It's indeed not correct - the majority of spanish is spoken outside of
> > > > Spain. But it's reality that we call the language 'spanish', shorten it 
> > > > with
> > > > "es" and use a Spanish flag as easiest way of showing what language we're
> > > > talkin' about.
> > > >
> > > > I hope ppl will care about the event, not politics.
> > > >
> > > > And we should take a clue from KDE, something I was recently reminded 
> > > > off:
> > > > "Always assume people mean well". Should be our philosophy, too - perfect
> > > > when dealing with different cultures etc :D
> > >
> > > Okay. Well in that case, i will go with the Spanish flag as you mentioned 
> > > above.
> > > Thanks jos :).
> > >
> > > Btw a quick update, I have asked to submit the summit site to the piwik 
> > > instance and all the caching has been taken care off as well.
> > >
> > > > > /S
> > > > >
> > > > > > Bryen
> > >
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