I’m very familiar with it after working for a company which does a tremendous amount of business in Europe. Our European office, based in the Netherlands, just

I’m very familiar with it after working for a company which does a tremendous amount of business in Europe. Our European office, based in the Netherlands, just wanted to use some Google translate proxy service rather than properly internationalize anything. If anything, I cared a lot more about getting it right than anyone else but it is a lot of work. My point is that with all of the work a company has to put in to even make a proper language choice available, complaining about flags is literally just finding a reason to be bothered. It’s like somebody built you a house just how you wanted it, but you latched onto the color of the front door to complain. So yes, 100%…if flags make your site look better just use flags and ignore the noise. If you want to do it a different way, do that. You’re investing the time to get it right, you don’t have time to deal with petty complaints about the selection box.