by jfernandezr on 7/21/23, 12:59 PM
Not talking about politics, here, but a flag usually denotes a country or region, not a language.
You should use a flag when you're referring to a country or region, for example when you have an e-commerce website and are just distributing in certain areas. But languages do not have flags associated and then should not be used in language selectors.
Check that the example in the GH thread has Spanish as one of their choices and has the Spanish flag. Spanish is talked in a lot of countries including Spain, but also Spain has 4 different official languages in its own state territory. So, there exists es_ES, es_MX, es_PE but also es_ES and ca_ES. What flag should we paint in each case?
I've seen this mistake soo many times...
by gattis on 7/21/23, 12:09 PM
Well, politicking is mostly a waste of time, but here we have a rare chance to dialog with someone brainwashed by a truly corrupt and malignant ruling party with absolute power, and show them what free-thinking is all about. Personally, I would have taken the shot. The whole point of opening up to trade with China was the hope that the exposure would have influence on their people and that democratic ideas would win out in the end. I don't think we should shy away from this kind of confrontation.
by RalfWausE on 7/21/23, 11:43 AM
Ok, respect for his friendly and professional answer.
But... "Fuck off" would also have been very reasonable.
by blkhawk on 7/21/23, 11:39 AM
I find it amazing how cool and collected the response was.
by sfmike on 7/21/23, 11:49 AM
Great response that flags correlate to regions too and not 1:1 country usage, so this would be an exception to the standard. Also that the iso standard is that for zh_tw, so using that standard is within spec. Also the comment that no flag is visually not aligned with other lines having flags. All logical and rational reasons not to omit unrelated to politics.
by damsta on 7/21/23, 11:48 AM
Imagine wasting time on cloning the repo, making a change, pushing it, creating a PR, all that time wasted because of hate. He could use that time to fix one of the 38 issues reported by other users...
by _han on 7/21/23, 11:38 AM
I think the maintainer handled this really well. Hats off!
by cebert on 7/21/23, 1:47 PM
Why did this get flagged?
by matthewfelgate on 7/24/23, 11:32 AM
I think it's more usual to use the PRC Chinse flag next to both Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
I guess in this case the contributors were Taiwanese and decide to use that flag.
by WhatDFHere on 7/21/23, 11:36 AM
It's sad when politics enters the community in git. Ugh.
by lampington on 7/21/23, 1:15 PM
by H8crilA on 7/21/23, 11:48 AM
Taiwan is indeed not a country under international law, this was approved by ~everyone including the US. Not long ago we had a very interesting post here with a transcript of the famous Mao/Kissinger meeting. But, yes the flags are just visual indicators, they do not confirm that something is or isn't a country.
by matthewfelgate on 7/21/23, 12:36 PM
Imagine putting the Russian flag for the Ukrainian language for an idea of how Chinese people feel about Taiwan being a country.
Whilst I understand you didn't mean to start a political debate, you have made a political choice by using the Taiwan so it's unfair to blame others for "bringing politics into it" just because you don't have understanding on the subject.
> "No one can deny that it [Taiwan] owns a flag."
1 Billion Chinese people would like a word with you.
