On Wednesday 04 April 2012 12:08:04 Shayon Mukherjee wrote:
On Apr 4, 2012, at 9:12 AM, Bryen M Yunashko
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
/S
Bryen