Re: icons for languages

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

On 14/09/2005, at 7:27 PM, Gudmund Areskoug wrote:

> back to square one, then... A hard nut to crack.
>
> I guess only personal settings can solve what flag (or any kind of  
> icon) each person wants to use, then, in case any flag at all  
> exists for the language.

I would still strongly advise using the name of the language. This  
is, after all, how we identify the translations and even the language  
teams.

Certainly for Vietnamese, the name of the language (tiáng Viát or  
Viát ngá) is a safe choice, where the flag of the current  
government of Vietnam is unfortunately not.

Using the language names is quite common by now, seen on many sites.  
You click on the language name to access a page in that language, to  
see information relevant to people speaking that language. I have  
translated for several OSS sites which use the name of the language.

There would not be a problem for us in using the language name: it  
would be the best choice.

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhÃm  
Viát hÃa phán mám tá do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN