Package Maintainers Flags policy

Björn Persson bjorn at xn--rombobjrn-67a.se
Tue May 19 13:59:25 UTC 2009


Andrea Musuruane wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> 
wrote:
> > If a program means to say "choose your language" then they should say
> > "choose your language". Not "choose a flag from a linguistically
> > homogenous country".
>
> I don't agree. Usually if you have to choose a language is mainly
> because you cannot understand what is written on the screen. Therefore
> an ideographic form to represent a language is needed. Flags is an
> obvious choice. If we cannot use them, what else?

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