Icon for language selector

kellpossible commented 7 months ago

Having the label "Language:" isn't very accessible for people who speak other languages. If we localize this value then it will change depending on what language is selected which also isn't ideal. We could rely on people identifying the flag as the language, however not every language has an associated country flag (and we may want to disable the flag for neutrality reasons).

This is what it would look like with the flag disabled:

For someone who speaks only German, this may be impossible to understand that it is a language selection dialog.

An alternative to this could be to have an icon which identifies the language selector. Another alternative could be to always display all languages, however this won't scale well as we add more languages.

kellpossible commented 7 months ago

Icons which have a globe, or earth, seem to be among the most recognisable.

kellpossible commented 7 months ago

There's also this style of icon which is common (this example from jetbrains.com site)