[ILUG] Hosting - Yet again

[Brian Foster]

  | From: Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie>
  | Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 23:09:11 +0000
  |[ ... ] 
  | I was thinking more of the server at <http://hetzner.de/>  [ ... ]
  | Why is there a union jack at the bottom of the ad, as a matter of interest?

 I haven't looked, but that is a common — albeit
 poor — convention for "click here for an English
 version of this page/site".  the reason this is
 not a good idea is it's confusing, not everyone
 associates country X' flags with language Y, and
 sometimes there are people who object to seeing
 X's flag (last one's a poor reason ....  ;-\ ).

 what's usually suggested is just to say, *in*
 language Y using language Y's script(s), what
 is meant.  that is, just say:  English, Français,
 Deutsch, and so on.  that's much more obvious
 (esp. to people who can read the language,
 which is who it's aimed at in the first place!).

cheers!
	-blf-
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