Re: language flags (was Flag of England)

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 17:34:23 EDT Jonathan Chang <Zhang2323@...>
writes:
>     What a gooey can of worms we have opened up here... hehe...
> Shouldn't we think of some other way of symbolizing languages,
> perhaps "icons" made simply from the native written word(s) for
> that particular language?, i.e. _English_, _Français_, _Tok Pisin_,
> then of course the various other languages in Cyrillic, Arabic, etc..
>     I always felt that the use of flags to represent languages was
> something from some earlier century...
>
>     zHANg
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When i wanted to make versions of my webpage(s) in all the languages i
knew at the time (English, Hebrew, Spanish) i made little "Netscape now!"
style button graphics with the native name of the language, with an
enlarged and colored first letter.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "do not fear sudden terror, nor destruction by the wicked, if it comes."
 "do not fear night-terror, nor the arrow that flies by day."