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The UK flag can be a somewhat loaded symbol for native English speakers from England's former colonies (like Ireland, where I'm from). I'd rather not have to us
by j_french 4y ago
The UK flag can be a somewhat loaded symbol for native English speakers from England's former colonies (like Ireland, where I'm from). I'd rather not have to use it to select my language preference, but I'm not going to waste energy jumping up and down shouting on the internet about it either. A minor annoyance I guess.
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- biorach 4y agoAlso Irish, agree 100%. Every time I have to click on the UK flag to select my language preference I have a quiet "ugh" moment, then click on the damn flag and move on with my life.
- graderjs 4y agoAgree this is a strange oversight of i18n language selection UI in general. We have English ({US, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom}) as relatively standard language choices why not add Scotland, Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Wales. I think there's probably even more... We also have Chinese ({Hong Kong, China, Taiwan}) as fairly standard choices for somewhat similar reasons. I think country variations for Arabic also exist. The lack of completeness in general (not this site specifically) is inexcusable.
- veltas 4y agoYeah as I said the best thing is to remove the flag, because languages aren't flags. As someone else said, just put the language name in its own language. I'm not jumping up and down annoyed, I'm not even really annoyed, I just wanted to share this cultural insight that IMO was indicative of a larger issue of having flags at all.
- shirdel87 4y agoWe do respect to the cultures. The guys here are right about not using flags.