[mythtv] MythUI porting

[Stuart Morgan]

On Tuesday 19 August 2008 12:03:42 Graham Mitchell wrote:
> > Stuart Morgan wrote:
> > The Welsh flag would be used for Welsh, the Irish Flag for Irish Gaelic,
> > Scottish Flag for Scottish Gaelic and Cornish flag ... well you get the
> > point.
>
> Actually, you'll find that most people in Scotland do not speak Gaelic (I
> am one of the many that does not). And as far as I am aware, the official
> language of Scotland is still English. I still have a British passport, and
> not a Scottish one. I still have a British drivers license, and not a
> Scottish one (I don't even have one of those noncy EU ones). We have a
> British Olympic team, and not a Scottish one.

I included a footnote in the email about how I seriously doubted that anyone 
would create a Scottish Gaelic translation, but then decided it wasn't 
needed - apparently I was wrong ;)

The number of people speaking Cornish is even smaller.

This isn't about what countries use the English language, it's a visual 
representation of the languages origin - Language selection vs Country 
selection. Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders and at least a dozen other 
countries, some who are not even in the Commonwealth, use English, yet they 
aren't part of the UK but I don't forsee them getting upset about which flag 
is used.

For that matter French, Spanish, Portugeuse and other languages are the 
primary language in many countries. Are the inhabitants of Canada, Republic 
of Congo, Vietnam, Switzerland or Guadloupe going to get upset that the 
French flag is used to represent the French language?

Lets not turn this into an off-topic debate on nationality, if you want to 
have that argument then I'm sure there are many more appropriate forums on 
the internet.
-- 
Stuart Morgan