• jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    I don’t like using country flags for languages. For one thing, not every language has a country of its own – there are 700+ languages in use today, but <200 countries. Many languages don’t even have any obvious insignia to represent them at all.

    If you’re making a piece of software and you want it ported to many languages, just use text to represent the language.

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      6 hours ago

      America has one of the largest Spanish speaking populations in the world, so in future web applications I will use the American flag to indicate Spanish, for the lulz