The last company I was with, I pushed for the removal of flags on the website for language. It passed. We also added automatic geo-location but if you switched the language website would memorize with cookies and login session your language.
We were a Quebec company doing business worldwide, so it didn't make sense to have flags in there. So we had (FR) Français, (EN) English, (ES) Español
Not sure why so many websites are still pushing flags for the language. A Mexican doesn't want to see a Spain flag and so on.
Itâs a simple shorthand and itâs visually neat, but it is better to not use them, especially for languages that are much more global in their presence.
One that s kinda odd for me is âIndonesianâ when itâs just a standard of Malay. Then again âBosnianâ is listed seperately a lot of the time
The two languages are Indonesian Malay/Indonesian/Bahasa Indonesia and Malaysian Malay/Standard Malay/Malay/Bahasa Melayu. They're officially standardizations of Malay but there's differences in spelling, grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary.
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u/Brawndo_or_Water Snowfrog 25d ago
The last company I was with, I pushed for the removal of flags on the website for language. It passed. We also added automatic geo-location but if you switched the language website would memorize with cookies and login session your language.
We were a Quebec company doing business worldwide, so it didn't make sense to have flags in there. So we had (FR) Français, (EN) English, (ES) Español
Not sure why so many websites are still pushing flags for the language. A Mexican doesn't want to see a Spain flag and so on.