The best icon is a text label, written in the language of the user? Sure. But the easiest icon is that weird squidgy thing that looks like a ... well, I don't

The best icon is a text label, written in the language of the user? Sure. But the easiest icon is that weird squidgy thing that looks like a ... well, I don't know, I'm expecting users will click on it and eventually figure it out. Squidgy thing takes maybe an hour to create. The internationalization team's SLA is not an hour.