Re: Neutral (non-national) symbols for languages

["Leandro Regueiro" <leandro.regueiro@gmail.com>]

> in GUIs, web pages and documentation, national flags are
> normally used to indicate a language. Somehow this feels not
> "correct" to me, because it gives both "false positives" and
> "false negatives". E.g. for German we use the black-red-gold of
> the German flag. But German is also spoken in Austria and some
> other countries. OTOH, German is not the only language in
> Germany, as we have also minority languages. What alternatives
> exist, if one wants to have a graphical language indication?

I don't know. You could make one flag for represent a language. Or
make a mixture from several flags, like the usually used for represent
the english...

Bye,
                   Leandro Regueiro