Re: icons for languages

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

On 9/13/05, Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh farsiweb info> wrote:

<snip expected response on flags>

> Are there any other decent ways to do signify language visually?
> 
> The name of the language in its own language (and script) may be the
> best thing to do. But even that may be controversial sometimes. For
> example, the Azerbaijani speakers in Iran are divided into what their
> language should be called in Azerbaijani. Some insist on (a translation
> equivalent to) Turkish, others on Azerbaijani, others on Azerbaijani
> Turkish, and a few on Azeri.

How often is this a problem? i.e., if I wanted to do that for any of
the (currently) 14 languages here:

http://torrent.gnome.org/

would that be a problem? [The current solution, 'just use english',
seems really suboptimal.]

> Sorry Luis, this is not an easy question to answer at all.

understood.

Luis