Summary: Python.org as a multi-language portal (was: Some thoughts about Python, python.org and non-English languages)

[M. Müller-Oertel]

Kyler Laird wrote:

> > > Perhaps even add an appropriate flag.
> >
> > Flags are nice to look at, but they represent nations. We shouldn't
misuse
> > them to represent languages, even if everyone else does.
>
> Ha!  Yes, I was trying to placate others with that comment.
> I certainly am not a big advocate of using more images -
> especially inappropriate ones.
>
> I still think that for some languages, an appropriate flag
> could be determined.  The only languages I've studied
> (English, French, Spanish) seem to map cleanly to countries
> of origin.  (I'm now waiting for someone to give me a great
> story of how French really originated in ...)

Well, you say the origin of a language is the key factor, others might argue
it's the size of a country or something else. Who decides? At this point we
easily cross the borderline of politics and this may not be wise, especially
not in these times. From a Pythonic point of view I'd prefer to think about
language as a property of a person -- the (potential) user --, not a nation.
But be assured I personally loose nothing should somebody or the community
decide to use flags for this purpose. I like the flag of my country and I
know it would be used then. ;-)

Marcus