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Add missing language flags #11868
Add missing language flags #11868
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In Switzerland (de-CH) we usually don't use the Swiss flag to indicate the language. That is because Switzerland has four official languages and thus the flag wouldn't tell you which language it should represent. We usually use the flag from Germany, France and Italy to indicate the languages (the fourth language Romansh is ignored). So imho at least the Switzerland flag doesn't make any sense to be included. Can't say anything about the other ones. |
Aldo the ch flag used was the one already in joomla |
I'd say for de-AT, the Austrian flag would be appropriate as they only have german as official language. But I don't know what tehy usually use there. |
Yep, technicalls it is a wrong one. But it depends how much one cares :) |
The only issue we have with using the same flag for different languages is the impossibility to differentiate them (specially in back-end as in frontend one may decide to use the language tag or name instead of the flags.) |
After more thought, I think this PR is OK. |
I have tested this item ✅ successfully on 1d0f4b7 This comment was created with the J!Tracker Application at issues.joomla.org/joomla-cms/11868. |
Currently, it would work because there is no official pack for fr-CH and it-CH. But if someone decides to add those (which for consistency with de-CH should be done) you have de-CH, fr-CH and it-CH all using the Swiss flag by default? Can't be right. |
I have tested this item ✅ successfully on 1d0f4b7 This comment was created with the J!Tracker Application at issues.joomla.org/joomla-cms/11868. |
@Bakual i tottaly understand you, that's exactly why flags should not represent languages. However is not the intent of this PR to change how Joomla represents content languages. |
@Bakual do you agree with this? |
@Bakual thanks. please do a PR to this branch or make a new PR with your proposal. |
As said my graphic skills aren't good enough to do the image and we can't just steal it from another site for obvious reasons. |
Or, see This is public domain. |
If this can help You can see for: |
The one from the Wiki looks good to me. |
I don't know about US but from my understanding the official language in the USA is only english. So the american flag would work there. |
Nope. |
Legally the USA does not have an official language :)
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Disagree as some (Acadians for example or part of the region of Nouveau-Brunswick) are speaking also french but are not part of Québec - the flag you are using here https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/blob/staging/media/mod_languages/images/fr_ca.gif - and the "french" spoken are not the same. |
(seems i opened pandora's box yet again ...) |
Naaa, don't worry... we all know the end already ;) |
Selecting a flag should be the responsibility of the TT. if they choose a
specific flag and a user doesn't like it they can change it. It should not
be the role of core to make a decision on the flag to use.
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ok, so please someone ask the creators of the following language packages for a 18x12 gif image for each of this language packs.
Can anyone do that? |
Pinging @sisko1990 as he is the creator of all those packs (imho, they are identical anyway). |
If we apply the logic of the flags presented here, the de_ch.gif, fr_ch.gif and it_ch.gif should be identical but do not represent languages. Now if the translation teams have a specific flag for ca-ES "Catalan" they should be free to display an alternative flag for that. |
@jsubri |
We dont need flags to differentiate the languages in the UI if we stop On 2 September 2016 at 07:17, infograf768 notifications@github.com wrote:
Brian Teeman |
I have tested this item ✅ successfully on 1d0f4b7 This comment was created with the J!Tracker Application at issues.joomla.org/joomla-cms/11868. |
Merged the PR and changed the Swiss German flag with an own commit (d114493) |
Summary of Changes
Add missing flags.
Language Packs:
Testing Instructions
Check this images and language packs.
Documentation Changes Required
None.