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magic:
Actually, I could swear that the :bullshit: icon used to be like that on this forum in the past. Not sure what happened; maybe I remember some other forum?


--- Quote from: tooki on May 18, 2021, 11:23:02 am ---Windows displays the flags as the two-letter ISO 3166 country codes, the same ones as country domains in URLs. (Which is also how the flags are encoded under the hood.)

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But that's exactly what I mean :-+
If your software lack the flag graphic and/or chooses to render the sequence as characters for any reason, you get some English abbreviation regardless of your own locale.

Most people using computers these days don't even know what a TLD is. They fire up "the google", type "facebook" into the search bar, click some flag picture to appear in their post and behold it turn into a sequence of foreign runes on their other Windows machine :D
tooki:

--- Quote from: magic on May 18, 2021, 01:44:07 pm ---Actually, I could swear that the :bullshit: icon used to be like that on this forum in the past. Not sure what happened; maybe I remember some other forum?


--- Quote from: tooki on May 18, 2021, 11:23:02 am ---Windows displays the flags as the two-letter ISO 3166 country codes, the same ones as country domains in URLs. (Which is also how the flags are encoded under the hood.)

--- End quote ---
But that's exactly what I mean :-+
If your software lack the flag graphic and/or chooses to render the sequence as characters for any reason, you get some English abbreviation regardless of your own locale.

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Then you missed the point: the ISO abbreviations aren’t English. Some are, because they’re English-speaking countries. But I assure you, “CH” for Switzerland isn’t English. “DE” for Germany isn’t English. “HR” for Croatia isn’t English. Fundamentally, the ISO abbreviations first try to be abbreviations in the native language of the country. (I can only assume Hungary got “HU” because every conceivable abbreviation of Magyarország was already needed for one of the many countries that start with M.)

And others for non-Roman-alphabet countries, like “JP” for Japan and “TH” for Thailand could just as much be English, French, or any number of languages that use the Latin alphabet. The similarities of many country names across languages is why so many country codes make sense in English, but also in their native languages and many others.
RJSV:
Holding contact w FLAG works, on my Alcatel / Android op phone.
Although it looked like 'chrome' menu stuff, it shows country up top of menu.
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