For those of you who enjoyed having a flag icon on your menu bar by using the keyboard input work-around, Apple has replaced the beautiful flag icons with two-letter icons. This makes the Mac less fun, less colorful, and less enjoyable to use. For true international users (not those of us just using it to display something pretty) it'll be harder to tell what language you are using because flags are easier to identify than gray text. Bad UI move Apple.
Apple Removes Flag Icons in Monterey 12.4
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#2Having a flag displayed isn't apparently worth dealing with the controversy. Decisions like this make me feel like software isn't really designed for people.
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#3I don't really see how having "EN" instead of a US or UK or whatever flag is really going to make people happier or sadder.
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#4The Unicode Consortium has indicated they won't accept new flags as emoji.
https://www.engadget.com/unicode-no-flag-emoji-please-131509...
Given this, it's a sensible move; it won't be long before the available set no longer reflects the full set of countries.
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#5I don't really see how having "EN" instead of a US or UK or whatever flag is really going to make people happier or sadder.
Tbh when I used a Mac I did think it looked oddly inconsistent that it was the only colour in the status bar.
And as evidenced by OP some people obviously liked that, it's a change, of course some will like and some will not (and others will be indifferent).
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#6I am going to assume this has something to do with China/Taiwan/Hong Kong since that is the only market that is both big enough to force the change and where the political leadership is very sensitive about flag/name/border issues.
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#7In Ukraine this matters for a lot of people. Half if not the majority of ukrainians are russian-speaking and confusing russian language with russia is not something we like.
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#8I don't really see how having "EN" instead of a US or UK or whatever flag is really going to make people happier or sadder.
Out of the corner of my eye I can see if my keyboard is in US mode (red/white/blue) or Spanish (yellow/red). Can't do that now, need to actually move my eyes to the corner of the screen to read low contrast grayscale ES or EN. Horrible UI regression.
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#9I don't really see how having "EN" instead of a US or UK or whatever flag is really going to make people happier or sadder.
Tbh when I used a Mac I did think it looked oddly inconsistent that it was the only colour in the status bar. And as evidenced by OP some people obviously liked that, it's a change, of course some will like and some will not (and others will be indifferent).
It makes it much easier to tell which layout is active.
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#10I 100% applaud this. I've always used ABC Extended because I thought a flag in the system menu was gaudy and weirdly nationalistic.
I know I live in the US and use the American English keyboard layout. Similarly, I don't need a Chinese flag every time I switch to a Chinese keyboard.