blog.i18n.ro » mistakes http://blog.i18n.ro Sorin's personal blog and website Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:05:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 i18n mistake #1: Using images for representing languages http://blog.i18n.ro/i18n-mistake-1-using-images-for-representing-languages/ http://blog.i18n.ro/i18n-mistake-1-using-images-for-representing-languages/#comments Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:32:53 +0000 sorin http://blog.i18n.ro/?p=145 Continue reading →]]> Clearly adding images for representing languages is not the most important internationalization issue someone can make. In fact I added #1 because this is the first internationalization mistake I decided to blog about and I want to document many more mistakes in the future.As a quick solution would be to use images with ISO 639-1 language codes like: en, fr, de, es, ja. But you should be aware that not all languages can be represented using ISO 639-1 and you may be required to use ISO-639-3 or simpler to add a two-letter subcode using country code [ISO3166] like en-us or en-gb

Also check the list every time you add a language because it’s another common mistake to assume that two letter domain names or country codes are the same as the language codes.

An even a better idea could be to not use images at all :D

You may find additional resources at: sil.org or at W3C – using lang

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