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A few issues: You can't trust that flags will be available, and you open yourself up to political/territorial disputes. Windows doesn't render the Unicode fla
by david_allison 5y ago
A few issues:
You can't trust that flags will be available, and you open yourself up to political/territorial disputes.
Windows doesn't render the Unicode flags (likely due to maintenance and territorial disputes).
Mainland Chinese iPhones don't render the Republic of China flag
Would you use the current Afghanistan flag, or the Taliban flag for Pashto (Afghani)?
Some languages don't have recognisable flags (our translation platform doesn't have a flag for Cantonese)
Flag to language is a many to many mapping. My Android lists ~107 available languages under 'English'.
- brigandish 5y agoWhy would anyone pick anything other than: - a Union Jack, because that’s the origin - an American flag, because it’s the largest English speaking nation - or their own flag (e.g. Australian) if the language is English?
- david_allison 5y ago(1) You're proposing displaying a Union Jack to users in the Republic of Ireland (2) You have a dependency on the number of states in the US. British people tolerate seeing the US flag, but it implies en-US, rather than en-GB It's much more simple to avoid these issues by using a generic "A/文" symbol
- brigandish 5y ago> (1) You're proposing displaying a Union Jack to users in the Republic of Ireland Yes. They're on a website, not watching an orange march go through their town. > (2) You have a dependency on the number of states in the US. Eh? > British people tolerate seeing the US flag, but it implies en-US, rather than en-GB Who cares? It's a website.