Hello Gleason, On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 10:34:10 -0400 GMT (27-Sep-19, 21:34 +0700 GMT), Gleason wrote:
> Martin, >> Hi >> Please do not use flags for icons for language options. Country flags >> don't reflect languages: German is spoken in Germany, Switzerland, >> Austria and more. French is spoken in France, Switzerland, Canada and >> much more. >> So icon for language options shouldn't be a flag. There are better >> icons for that. >> Example: https://i.imgur.com/4dsdKej.png > Your image shows a Latin based A and something perhaps oriental. I > suspect a single character font image won't be sufficient either. > Maybe the best way is to spell out the word in the font and language > it represents. That way you aren't requiring a foreign language user > to at least be able to recognize the word for their language in English. > Some groups, like French Canadians for instance, really really don't want to > use > English for anything, even if they can. > Of course there are many variants, like French in Thailand, Spanish in > the Philippines. The Philippines is tougher though because their Spanish > laps over into indigenous languages like Tagalog. Maybe Thailand > is similar. Not really, because nobody in Thailand (except people who come from a French-speaking country such as France, or who learned it at school as a foreign language) speaks French. More people here can speak German than French, in my personal experience. And of course English and Chinese, the two most important foreign languages. The symbol for Thai language is quite easy and commonly used: ก That's the first letter of the Thai alphabet. The Philipines is in a different situation: It was a Spanish colony for a couple oif centuries, and the colonists left their language and their religion. Thailand never was a colony, so there is only one language here. -- 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
