[telmo]

Bathrooms need icons because they have to assume users who can't read, or don't know the local language. None of these two problems apply to language selection 99.9999% of the time: if you can't read, you can't use a system based on reading no matter the language, and if you don't recognize the name of a language in a list, you also do not want to select it.

[justsomehnguy]

Quite obviously you never interacted with any software which defaults to the language you can't read, despite having a support for the language you do understand.

[ReleaseCandidat]

How would flags in the language selection help? The actual problem is finding the language selection at all (which still has an icon of a (stylised) globe on MacOS).

[scubbo]

> if you don't recognize the name of a language in a list, you also do not want to select it

So, if you saw any of these languages in a list, you wouldn't select them?

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