US/German flags on Language support

[Eric Dunbar]

On 23/04/06, Karl Goetz <kamping_kaiser at internode.on.net> wrote:
> Karl Auer wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 11:55 +0200, Francisco Borges wrote:
> >> - the use of a globe
> >
> > What side of the globe do you intend to show? And (as an Australian) I
> > am very interested in *which way up it will be* :-)
>
> A generic globe, a blue thing with green patches. And as an Australian,
> I share your interest in the globes orientation :)
>
> >> - locale dependent icon set, if at installation you say you are at
> >>   country X, then display the flag of X and the flag of any neighboring
> >>   country like;
> >>
> >>   US? -> US/Canada or US/Mexico
> >
> > Israel/Palestine! India/Pakistan! China/Tibet!
> >
> > There is no easy way. I suggest creating a huge set of teensy
> > superimposable flaglets and letting people do their own thing :-)
>
> I suggest not having national flags involved at all :)

And, in certain regions of the world, BORDERS are a very dangerous
thing to include. Illustrations of the borders of Israel vs. Palestine
vs. the Occupied Territories causes tempers to flare in different
parts of the Middle East!!!