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I fairly often find myself deciding between flag of the United Kingdom or the flag of the United States of America as a choice for ‘English’ wondering will this

I fairly often find myself deciding between flag of the United Kingdom or the flag of the United States of America as a choice for ‘English’ wondering will this just be different spelling or will there be some other ill effect of choosing the wrong one. I live in neither country, of course.

082349872349872 2y ago
I like the post-Brexit solution of using the Éire flag.
Ekaros 2y ago
Just be neutral and go for India. Or Australia. Or randomly pick from all English speaking countries...
- dTP90pN 2y ago
  The real solution is obviously to use geolocation to find the closest country which officially uses the individual language(s).
- jackvalentine 2y ago
  In that situation my country would probably be an option so I wouldn’t be choosing between UK or USA…
justsomehnguy 2y ago
> will there be some other ill effect of choosing the wrong one I recently tried to switch the locale of my work computer to en-GB, on a en-US distro and retaining the en-US keyboard layout. The result is... unpleasant and some things (notably vSphere) just casually ignore both the user software settings (Firefox) and the OS settings.
- jackvalentine 2y ago
  We _cannot_ get our office 365 environment to consistently use the correct locale. It’s shockingly frustrating to find yet another place that uses U.S. date format and spelling.
msla 2y ago
You could choose violence and use the Quebec flag for English because most people there speak English, right? Is there any standardization on which flag gets used for Arabic?
marcosdumay 2y ago
Yeah, English is not my first language, and I often pick it to avoid ill-effects of choosing the wrong language. Then there's the guess between stuff that looks like "English", "English (International)", "English (US)", and "English (UK)". (There's also some abbreviation for British that may vary, it's often "Br".) Anyway the flags don't necessarily make it any more confusing.

082349872349872 2y ago

I like the post-Brexit solution of using the Éire flag.

Ekaros 2y ago

Just be neutral and go for India. Or Australia. Or randomly pick from all English speaking countries...

dTP90pN 2y ago
The real solution is obviously to use geolocation to find the closest country which officially uses the individual language(s).
jackvalentine 2y ago
In that situation my country would probably be an option so I wouldn’t be choosing between UK or USA…

justsomehnguy 2y ago

> will there be some other ill effect of choosing the wrong one I recently tried to switch the locale of my work computer to en-GB, on a en-US distro and retaining the en-US keyboard layout. The result is... unpleasant and some things (notably vSphere) just casually ignore both the user software settings (Firefox) and the OS settings.

jackvalentine 2y ago
We _cannot_ get our office 365 environment to consistently use the correct locale. It’s shockingly frustrating to find yet another place that uses U.S. date format and spelling.

msla 2y ago

You could choose violence and use the Quebec flag for English because most people there speak English, right? Is there any standardization on which flag gets used for Arabic?

marcosdumay 2y ago

Yeah, English is not my first language, and I often pick it to avoid ill-effects of choosing the wrong language. Then there's the guess between stuff that looks like "English", "English (International)", "English (US)", and "English (UK)". (There's also some abbreviation for British that may vary, it's often "Br".) Anyway the flags don't necessarily make it any more confusing.