Language icons, etc
Feb. 9th, 2010 03:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marnanelThere is a tool I look after called ProjectJournal which is used to publish the Metacity Journal posts. I am considering releasing it, because some people have expressed an interest.
One of the things it does is list all the people who have contributed translations to a project recently. At the moment, it looks like this (apologies for the old example, but it was the first I found):
Things I should perhaps fix about this include
One of the things it does is list all the people who have contributed translations to a project recently. At the moment, it looks like this (apologies for the old example, but it was the first I found):
Things I should perhaps fix about this include
- writing the translator's full name rather than their username
- maybe making the translator's name a link to their home page if I had it
- writing the full name of the language rather than the ISO 639 code
- alternatively, displaying an icon next to the language-- but it's not obvious what icons to use. Some people use flags to represent languages, but of course this is rather broken because there's no 1-1 mapping between flags and languages. Wikipedia uses icons which incorporate the ISO 639 code, which makes it seem hardly worthwhile using icons at all. I feel this is a bit of a minefield and probably one we should stay out of.
