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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon Ebsy

"national" flag when used by regions

Open mentalstring opened this issue 5 years ago • 2 comments

From the name of the flag filenames, I'm guessing the plugin follows ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes. Although often called "country codes", this standard is "to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest".

On a worldwide forum, it is not uncommon for the use of the words "country" or, in this case, "national" to be a source of disagreement (eg: "X is not a country", etc.) or at least some friction.

Could the label on the profile settings be something like "Location flag"? This would also cover the special case with the EU flag. I do realize the name of the plugin, but it would be enough to update the user facing text.

mentalstring avatar May 18 '20 16:05 mentalstring

Hi, thanks for the comment. The plugin was originally used for my forum which consisted of users from all over the world who all live in one european city and meet up in person to play RPGs. In this case, location would be the same for everyone

Ebsy avatar May 19 '20 10:05 Ebsy

Ah, good point. Tricky. Could simply "Flag" work here, or would that be too open for interpretation?

mentalstring avatar May 19 '20 10:05 mentalstring