Hello Gleason, On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 17:18:41 -0400 GMT (28-Sep-19, 04:18 +0700 GMT), Gleason wrote:
> Gleason, >> Martin, >>> Hi The >>> On Friday, September 27, 2019 10:46:57 PM you wrote: >>>> Hello everybody, >>>> on Freitag, 27. September 2019 at 18:46 Martin <mar...@postzone.org> wrote >>>> re Icons for language options >>>> >>>>> On Friday, September 27, 2019 4:34:10 PM Gleason wrote: >>>>>> Your image shows a Latin based A and something perhaps oriental. I >>>>>> suspect a single character font image won't be sufficient either. >>>>> Why not use the letters of ISO 639? >>>> I vote for that. >>>> >>>> DE for German. EN for English. >>>> >>>> But what about languages which are written in non-latin scripts? >>>> >>>> RU for Russian, but could this be in kyrillic script? How about Arabic? >>> ISO639-1 writes "ar" and ISO639-2 "ara" for Arabic. >> Would Somebody from Saudi Arabia know that? If so, then how about >> from Morocco? TB does have Turkey, which I suspect is similar to and >> different from other Arabic places. A person who uses the Turkish >> variety would recognize the name of his own variant in the font used >> in Turkey. > Besides which, I suspect Turks don't think of themselves as Arabs in > quite the same way that Egyptians and Lybians do. They are not Arabs, they are Turks. And they changed from arabic letters to Latin letters almost 100 years ago. -- Cheers, Thomas. Message reply created with The Bat! Version 8.8.9.12 (BETA) (64-bit) under Windows 10.0 Build 18362 ________________________________________________________ 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
