Additional Language Codes (ISO-639-1) about flag-icons

[lipis]

I'm getting lots of requests about that issue and the problem is that there is no official list of all the languages with their corresponding flag.. because simply flags are belonging to the countries..!

Why using the british flag for the english instead of the US... I'm pretty sure the americans would totally prefer that.. and we didn't ask the australians.. :) same for spanish and many others..

So officially I don't think that we could cover all the languages without upsetting someone.. but it's quite easy to make some updates to the .less file to match your needs and add whatever flag you want to your language. I myself also needed that for another project, so you can check the example on how it works: https://github.com/gae-init/gae-init-babel/blob/master/main/static/src/style/locale.less

.flag-icon(@country, @locale) {
  .flag-icon-@{locale} {
    background-image: ~"url(@{flag-icon-css-path}/4x3/@{country}.svg)";
    &.flag-icon-squared {
      background-image: ~"url(@{flag-icon-css-path}/1x1/@{country}.svg)";
    }
  }
}

.flag-icon(gb, en);
.flag-icon(gr, el);
.flag-icon(ar, es);

and then using .flag-icon-en with the gb flag :)

[mdxs]

Representing languages with national flags is problematic; as explained in http://flagsarenotlanguages.com/blog/why-flags-do-not-represent-language/

That doesn't mean flags cannot be used (if your audience understands them), but probably only as a supplementary visual cue; for that the method described by @lipis can be followed.

My vote: -1 for this feature request.

[rvanlaak]

So what do you recommend when en is needed? The locale in my application everywhere is en instead of gb or us.

[lipis]

@rvanlaak If you do the above override then you will be able to use the .flag-icon-en instead of the .flag-icon-gb which is also what I'm using in my other app when I use en for the locale and I want to use a flag for it..

[lipis]

I think with that nice link we can close this issue for one more time :)

Flags are for countries.. how people are going to use them is another thing and the method I described above is very very simple..!