Flags Are Not Languages
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Flags Are Not Languages
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Re: Flags Are Not Languages
#2Counterpoint to this website: it is convenient to have symbols to represent things. I don't see them suggesting anything better than flags.
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#3I personally find that new UI much more difficult to parse.
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#4But the flag was useful to show in the ui where the language setting was. This is especially useful when the language has been set to something I cannot read. I don't know which of 语言设定 and 重置设备 will allow me to set the language back to English. Also flags in the menu means that I can find English easier than 英语
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#6Counterpoint to this website: it is convenient to have symbols to represent things. I don't see them suggesting anything better than flags.
Only if the symbols make sense and there's a one-to-one relationship. This is a good move by Apple.
Also, as a color blind person it is quite frustrating when people make content and use a flag emoji instead of a country name. Often mousing over doesn't work. Emojis are not semantic information.
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#7Keyboard layouts are more country related than language related. At least among French speakers that's the case. So using country flags probably makes sense here.
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#8But the flag was useful to show in the ui where the language setting was. This is especially useful when the language has been set to something I cannot read. I don't know which of 语言设定 and 重置设备 will allow me to set the language back to English. Also flags in the menu means that I can find English easier than 英语
Wikipedia uses a “文Ａ” icon; IMHO far better than a flag. What flag would you expect to see?
As for finding the language in the menu, listening a language in the foreign language seems like bad design too. The menu should list “English” as an option!
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#9Counterpoint to this website: it is convenient to have symbols to represent things. I don't see them suggesting anything better than flags.
Having the wrong symbol for something is worse than the inconvenience of not having a symbol.
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#10If asked to make icons for languages, whet else would you even use instead of flags? Icons help find things faster, and the users are used to seeing flags next to language labels.
In some cases, a single flag indeed does not sufficiently describe an option. In this case, combine, like, two flags, e.g. (flag of Spain)(flag of Columbia), or invent some other clever icon to disambiguate selection.