This always annoys me. I land on a site that's in a language I don't understand (say, Dutch), and I want to switch to something else. I open the language selector and... it's all in Dutch too. So instead of Germany/Deutchland, Romania/România, Great Britain, etc, I get Duitsland and Roemenië and Groot-Brittannië...

How does that make any sense? If I don't speak the language, how am I supposed to know what Roemenië even is? In some situations, it could be easier to figure it out, but in some, not so much. "German" in Polish is "Niemiecki"... :|

Wouldn't it be way more user-friendly to show the names in their native language, like Deutsch, Română, English, Polski, etc?

Is there a reason this is still a thing, or is it just bad UX that nobody bothers to fix?

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[–] 16 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Which flag do we use for English?

I won't allow the stars and stripes

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    Every time I make a tool like this, I try to wind up any Americans in the company by putting the US flag as English (simplified) and the Union Jack as English

    It's a fun back and forth we have switching it between the two (inevitably someone makes a PR to put it back, and we go on)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I have seen at least one site where they used the English flag. Luckily I have watched the European Cup a few times and could recognize it.

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