On 2003-11-25(Tue) 17:09:25 -0800, Andy Tai wrote: > For Chinese, a possibility is to use a Chinese > character (say the word "middle") instead of flags in > the icons. That represents the Chinese language > better than any flag. Yes, this is indeed another good alternative. > This works for languages that use ideographs and thus > not too well for European and Middle Eastern > languages. But nor do they need to care about such problems, so it won't hurt. Abel > > > --- Abel Cheung <deaddog deaddog org> wrote: > > On 2003-11-26(Wed) 01:22:47 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > Again, it's all or nothing. You can't take a few > > "offensive" flags out and > > > not expect to be flamed to high heaven by the > > people who stand by those > > > symbols. If there is to be a package of flags, it > > should be *every* flag, > > > and up to distributors / us as to whether they're > > shipped or not. > > > > Exactly. last time Taiwan people see the removal of > > Taiwan flags as > > downright discrimination of Taiwan. It's this > > discrimination that people > > dislike most, and I'm sure nobody wants to be > > treated as so. > > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- Abel Cheung Linux counter #256983 | http://counter.li.org GPG Key: (0xC67186FF) | http://deaddog.org/gpg.asc Key fingerprint: 671C C7AE EFB5 110C D6D1 41EE 4152 E1F1 C671 86FF
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