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I do prefer all the icons to have text. Yet, localizing 'print', etc. is no easy feat.

• WalterBright 2y ago
  > Yet, localizing 'print', etc. is no easy feat True, but consider that "print" is just as easy to memorize its purpose as a squiggle. I've lived in foreign countries, and traveled in countries where I don't speak the language at all. It doesn't take much to figure out what the words for "entry", "exit", "toilet", etc., mean. And besides, English is the most international language in the world. Even if one doesn't know what "print" means, it's easy enough to look it up online or in a pocket dictionary. Keep in mind that there's no way to look up an icon.
  • xxs 2y ago
    >And besides, English is the most international language in the world Yeah, it is - but it doesn't make it right. Say you have a Cyrillic (not only Russia uses it) interface with non-Cyrillic wording. It feels your country is a 2nd hand one (which is likely true but that's not the point). Again the easy to memorize part comes from the fact the native alphabet is Roman based. I speak there languages but in some places I'd not figure "exit". Again, I do prefer text labels/buttons - it's just something that doesn't translate well/universally.