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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Bug#5715: kcontrol: Personnalization/Country & Language : Cannot
From:       Hans Petter Bieker <bieker () stud ! ntnu ! no>
Date:       2000-06-30 22:15:24
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Should we remove the flags for the languages? (see below)

-bieker-

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Engineering Cybernetics
                 bieker@stud.ntnu.no / bieker@kde.org

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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 15:57:49 -0700
From: Linux QA <linuxqa@corel.com>
To: 5715@bugs.kde.org, Hans Petter Bieker <bieker@stud.ntnu.no>
Subject: Bug#5715: kcontrol: Personnalization/Country & Language : Cannot
    localise            decimal symbol for different languages in the same
    country
Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 20:03:01 GMT
Resent-From: Linux QA <linuxqa@corel.com>
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Resent-cc: Hans Petter Bieker <bieker@kde.org>

>> Related to that, I would like to know, why are there flags for
>> languages?

>That's historical I guess. Maybe it's time to remove them?

I would say yes.

The thing is that a language should not be identified to a particular
country flag. For example, French is spoken in France, but also in
Belgium, in Canada and in some countries of Africa (etc). English is
also spoken widely accross the world.

So, taking the French language case, to well represent French countries
out there, putting a different flag for each languages, we would need a
French language for each country...

So, I do suggest to remove the flags.

Guillaume Pratte
Linux QA

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