[thelist] Iconography - Common Elements

[j.d. welch]

On Friday, Mar 21, 2003, at 21:15 America/New_York, Michele Foster 
wrote:

> French (and alternatively English on the French site)
>
>
> This is a Canadian site so anything that relates specifically to
> France/Britain would be completely unacceptable :)
>
> One suggestion was a book (or a couple of books) .. but I don't think 
> that
> really does it.

yeah, without the easy 'use each locale's flag' finding a 
universally-understandable icon for toggling language is pretty tough.  
it seems that most sites just have a link for each $language and leave 
it at that.  i think doing the text 'Fr' and 'En' artfully (i.e. get it 
to match the feel of the other icons), perhaps with silkscreen or 
similar pixel font, would do the job.  the more straightforward 
(boring) approaches seem best for this case.

-jd

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