Posted by Mark Parnell on 08/24/05 06:50

Previously in alt.html, Ed Jay <edMbj@aes-intl.com> said:

> Your point (and Jukka's) is well taken; however, the site is actually two
> sites in one. One is devoted to American investors and the other to
> Japanese businesses.

In your case, the use of flags is probably OK, since the site is aimed
at people in a particular country - the language is simply a by-product
of that.

Though what happens if you have an American in Japan, or vice versa? ;-)

> They are not mirrors of each other. They each contain
> different content.

I think Beauregard's suggestion of country silhouettes is a good idea.

> Obviously, the American site should be in English and
> the Japanese site in Japanese. Wouldn't you agree?

Absolutely. But Jukka's point is that flags are inappropriate symbols to
denote different languages, not that sites should only be in one
language (actually, he has some good info on using different
languages/character sets too IIRC).

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