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@shayon.me>:
On Apr 4, 2012, at 12:49 PM, Jos Poortvliet <jos@opensuse.org> wrote:
On Wednesday 04 April 2012 12:08:04 Shayon Mukherjee wrote:
On Apr 4, 2012, at 9:12 AM, Bryen M Yunashko <suserocks@bryen.com> 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.
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Bryen
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