It's an old one, but this alleged Steam screenshot handles the problem quite well, as well as fixing the use of the UK flag for English: https://jakubmarian.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/english-t...
Remove Taiwan flag – Taiwan is not a country
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Re: Remove Taiwan flag – Taiwan is not a country
#32It's an old one, but this alleged Steam screenshot handles the problem quite well, as well as fixing the use of the UK flag for English: https://jakubmarian.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/english-t...
Lol how to put water on boiling oil.
Re: Remove Taiwan flag – Taiwan is not a country
#33Not talking about politics, here, but a flag usually denotes a country or region, not a language. You should use a flag when you're referring to a country or region, for example when you have an e-commerce website and are just distributing in certain areas. But languages do not have flags associated and then should not be used in language selectors. Check that the example in the GH thread has Spanish as one of their…
This is probably fake but it's worth a chuckle https://old.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/ezsjhj/all_atms_in...
Re: Remove Taiwan flag – Taiwan is not a country
#34Not talking about politics, here, but a flag usually denotes a country or region, not a language. You should use a flag when you're referring to a country or region, for example when you have an e-commerce website and are just distributing in certain areas. But languages do not have flags associated and then should not be used in language selectors. Check that the example in the GH thread has Spanish as one of their…
So what should be used as the icon for languages?
I accidently changed languages in my phone to Arabic on android. It uses no icons to display languages, when a language is chosen all the options changed to the localized Arabic names.
I think the only logical solution is to display the options in the language, eh Arabic in Arabic letters, English in English letters etc.
But icons would still be useful. But there isn't a universally accepted icon for any language.
Re: Remove Taiwan flag – Taiwan is not a country
#35Imagine putting the Russian flag for the Ukrainian language for an idea of how Chinese people feel about Taiwan being a country. Whilst I understand you didn't mean to start a political debate, you have made a political choice by using the Taiwan so it's unfair to blame others for "bringing politics into it" just because you don't have understanding on the subject. > "No one can deny that it [Taiwan] owns a flag." 1…
To be fair he explained that it's also part of the ISO language
The flag isn't.
Re: Remove Taiwan flag – Taiwan is not a country
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Country flags are inherently political. They are a symbol of a political entity. If you don't want politics in "git" (or in code in general), then don't put it in. That said, this particular issue should not have been turned into a state-politics issue. The element in question seems to be a language selection rather than a country selection, so the very first argument ("TaiWan flag should not be placed along with oth…
> Country flags are inherently political Not people focused on the purpose of the repo.
Clearly was for the person submitting the PR?
Re: Remove Taiwan flag – Taiwan is not a country
#37Why did this get flagged?
Re: Remove Taiwan flag – Taiwan is not a country
#38Not talking about politics, here, but a flag usually denotes a country or region, not a language. You should use a flag when you're referring to a country or region, for example when you have an e-commerce website and are just distributing in certain areas. But languages do not have flags associated and then should not be used in language selectors. Check that the example in the GH thread has Spanish as one of their…
Taiwan is a free and independent nation, regardless of what China or its hackers think.
Re: Remove Taiwan flag – Taiwan is not a country
#39Great response that flags correlate to regions too and not 1:1 country usage, so this would be an exception to the standard. Also that the iso standard is that for zh_tw, so using that standard is within spec. Also the comment that no flag is visually not aligned with other lines having flags. All logical and rational reasons not to omit unrelated to politics.
Code zh-tw means the Chinese variant used in Taiwan. The technically correct code for Traditional Chinese is zh-hant.
It’s an entirely separate issue from the flag, but the developer technically should label the languages “Chinese (China)” and “Chinese (Taiwan)” in the dropdown instead, to better correspond to the flags.
Re: Remove Taiwan flag – Taiwan is not a country
#40Imagine wasting time on cloning the repo, making a change, pushing it, creating a PR, all that time wasted because of hate. He could use that time to fix one of the 38 issues reported by other users...
> all that time wasted because of hate Disagreement is not hate. I do not agree with the person who wants to get rid of the Taiwanese flag since as far as I'm concerned Taiwan is a country but I do not hate him for his request. Please don't use the word hate for these purposes as all that does is downplay cases of real hate.
If you are taking a slice of your free time just to go through this whole process to create a PR, and you know you will never get that time back, and your only message is: Taiwan is not a country, then either you are a troll or hate-fueled person. There is no middle ground, just read this part of their comment:
> TaiWan is not a country, is essentially a province of China. currently it's a district because of some history reasons. > So, TaiWan flag should not be placed along with other REAL country flags, It's a big misleading to website visitors.
This is not just a disagreement.