| paultag | cjohnston: yo bro, ping | 03:30 |
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| cjohnston | paultag: pong | 17:02 |
| mhall119 | AlanBell: make sure you update your clickable maps, the world has a new country today. Congrats to South Sudan! | 18:15 |
| AlanBell | yes indeed, I had made a note to get that right | 18:49 |
| czajkowski | c | 21:46 |
| czajkowski | soooooooooo full | 21:46 |
| JanC | I wonder how de facto (but for political reasons unrecognized) countries are handled...? | 22:16 |
| JanC | (e.g. Somaliland) | 22:17 |
| doctormo | JanC: Or Palistine? | 22:41 |
| topyli | this is why they removed flags from the gnome keyboard layout applet | 22:44 |
| topyli | _) | 22:44 |
| topyli | and .) | 22:44 |
| topyli | bah | 22:44 |
| JanC | flags were never useful for indicating keyboards ;) | 22:45 |
| JanC | e.g. there exists no "latin america" flag ;) | 22:46 |
| topyli | i insist on calling my keyboard layout 'finnish'. who cares if it's the same as the swedish one and originally developed for them! :) | 22:47 |
| JanC | I hope they use a hardlink or symlink then, I don't want to waste disk space on such follies! ;-) | 22:49 |
| AlanBell | I used flags for languages in an application once | 22:52 |
| AlanBell | seemed like a good idea at first | 22:52 |
| topyli | i never looked at this properly, but i think red hat basically found it difficult to sell licenses to china when their software included the taiwanese flag (and other similar problems) | 22:57 |
| topyli | (in other countries) | 22:57 |
| AlanBell | I had UK, France, Germany and Japan and they loved their flags | 22:58 |
| AlanBell | then Spain, so added that flag | 22:58 |
| AlanBell | then it went to Dallas | 22:58 |
| AlanBell | where they speak Spanish | 22:58 |
| topyli | oh yes i see your problem :) | 22:59 |
| AlanBell | but the Mexicans didn't like the Spanish flag, so I changed it | 22:59 |
| AlanBell | that nearly caused a riot | 22:59 |
| AlanBell | factory stopped, whole floor meeting, big discussion of the way forward. Puerto Ricans and other South Americans *really* not happy about the mexican flag | 23:00 |
| AlanBell | final decision, "please revert to the flag of Spain" | 23:01 |
| topyli | but you never removed flags? :) | 23:01 |
| AlanBell | no, but I never put them in again either :) | 23:02 |
| topyli | right :) | 23:02 |
| JanC | not to mention what to do with minority languages that have no single country associated with them ;) | 23:03 |
| topyli | it's awkward to put the indian flag on hindi even | 23:04 |
| AlanBell | at the time 日本語 didn't render well on the European desktops | 23:05 |
| topyli | JanC: we also have a dilemma in the irc space about channels like #ubuntu-es | 23:07 |
| topyli | it's much like #ubuntu itself, just spanish. but it's not really associated strongly with the spanish loco afaik | 23:08 |
| JanC | for support that makes sense | 23:08 |
| topyli | normally, we'd let locos take care of those, but -es is a pretty broad space | 23:09 |
| topyli | i think the spanish loco is actually minding it now | 23:10 |
| JanC | in case of -fr & -nl the French & Dutch locos run it, but get help from (people of) other locos that use those languages | 23:10 |
| JanC | so I'm a member of both ubuntu-be & ubuntu-nl ;) | 23:11 |
| topyli | yeah. fortunately the big languages often have a connection to a big country with a strong loco | 23:12 |
| topyli | btw i didn't mention -es as if it were a problem, just connected to the flag issue :) | 23:17 |
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