Talk:Universal Language Selector Mobile

two character to indicate a language
You mention a two letter code to indicate a language. Many if not most of our Wikipedia language have three letters. Thanks, Gmeijssen (talk) 10:53, 17 February 2012 (UTC)


 * ah, then two/three letters it is depending on the language --Planemad (talk) 12:43, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

what language is spoken in what country
Are you aware how many languages are spoken in the United States? It is not only English and the native American languages. There are several languages not originating in the USA who have a substantial number of speakers.. think Chinese, Arabic, Korean but also Hmong ...

The notion that flags help indicate languages spoken is a long standing fallacy. Thanks, Gmeijssen (talk) 10:53, 17 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Choosing the US should obviously give languages like Spanish, Polish etc that are common there. The languages you would get on selecting a country should include common ones used by the population. You would obviously not have Zulu if you selct the US. The idea is to eliminate irrelevant languages from a selection list by using the country as a filter. If you were a Korean person in US and you had no idea to read English, then you would need to select Korea as the country to get the Korean language, it just does not make sense that he would choose the American flag rather than the Korean one to get his language. Would you argue that an Arab immigrant in the US would select the US flag rather than his own home country? --Planemad (talk) 11:52, 17 February 2012 (UTC)


 * The argument is with flags as a metaphor. They stink. Gmeijssen (talk) 10:50, 18 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Could you be a little more descriptive of why flags would be difficult/controversial for a user? A scenario would really help me understand why you would think that this is such an extreme problem and to improve upon the proposal--Planemad (talk) 12:41, 18 February 2012 (UTC)


 * As far as I can see flags would here be used to indicate countries, which I suppose is fine, and not languages, which would indeed be bad. SPQRobin (talk) 12:57, 18 February 2012 (UTC)