On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:11:15 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > > On lun., 2010-02-15 at 12:03 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > > Flags are a poor representation of a particular language, and language > > > > selection is better handled using locales and content-negotiation > > > > anyway. [There are many examples where a country speaks many > > > > languages, and examples where multiple countries have the same > > > > language, but different dialects.] > I would love to get some comments from: > - people leaving in a country with many official languages. > - people leaving in a country which official language is the same > to the one spoken in another language (or at least quite similar). > Think of Ireland and UK ; Canada and USA ; Canada and France ; > Spain and Argentina/Peru/Uruguay/Chile... ... Austria and Germany ... > People from Belgium are really nice people, but they certainly don't > want to spend their life licking on one of the Dutch/French/German flag. Some here with s/Belgium/Austria/ and a German flag. And that's what Don already said: flags don't represent languages. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG Key IDs: 0x8649AA06, 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Joe Cocker: Trust In Me
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