Subject: Re: bug#26302: [website] translations

From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 13:20:56 +0200

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 10:52:10AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> Congrats on the translated website!

:)

> I noticed one minor issue, and that is it displays the
> language-selection drop-down with the current language's name for
> itself.
> 
> But if someone can't read the currently selected language, it's not
> obvious what they would click on to find a language they might
> understand. in other words:
> 
> 10:43 < vagrantc> civodul: the language-switching drop-down assumes you know what the current language describes itself ...
> 10:43 < vagrantc> e.g. not immediately obvious to someone who doesn't
> know german to click on "deutsch" to switch language
> 
> 
> This is a difficult user-interface challenge to solve well, not sure
> what to do better... the flag method is commonly used, but has many
> tricky political problems, though it can convey a dense amount of
> information in a small space.
> 
> 
> live well,
>   vagrant

Perhaps there should be a stylized image of characters from various
languages.  I cannot draw well though.  sirgazil, WDYT?

Regards,
Florian