These controversies consist mostly of people looking for controversies, real life trolls. Ignore them and their languages, like most of the world does.

Of course I seem to be a little (read: a few years) later than most of you, uhm, sorry about that.

That would solve the issue I came up with in my last comment.

I am well aware of the fact that this approach is not generalizable, and I never meant to imply that. In other words, some of you are completely missing my point, assuming that I do not know the difference between language and nationality. I do not think that I am going too far marking German content with the German flag. Even the different dialects do not change that. Sure, if I tagged Togolese content with a French flag could be perceived as odd, but I never intended to do so in the first place. Likewise, using a Swiss flag was not in the picture either.

That being said, I find Daniel’s and Karl’s approach so much nicer that I decided to change it accordingly. I would, for example, be able to distinguish a “Spanish Spanish” from a Brazilian Spanish source.

Daniel explained in the original article what was the process behind this.
http://www.glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php?post/2002/09/16/2576-untitled
I encouraged you to read this. Frederic had an idea similar to other people 6 years ago and certainly others before, but which led us collectively that it was not the best choice.

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being much better.