This always annoys me. I land on a site that’s in a language I don’t understand (say, Dutch), and I want to switch to something else. I open the language selector and… it’s all in Dutch too. So instead of Germany/Deutchland, Romania/România, Great Britain, etc, I get Duitsland and Roemenië and Groot-Brittannië…

How does that make any sense? If I don’t speak the language, how am I supposed to know what Roemenië even is? In some situations, it could be easier to figure it out, but in some, not so much. “German” in Polish is “Niemiecki”… :|

Wouldn’t it be way more user-friendly to show the names in their native language, like Deutsch, Română, English, Polski, etc?

Is there a reason this is still a thing, or is it just bad UX that nobody bothers to fix?

  • Biyoo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    19 hours ago

    The annoying thing is, you can’t put an image in the default select from browsers. So you have two choices :

    1. Make a custom select -> it’s complicated and will break on some machines.
    2. Use emoji flags -> windows do not have an image pack for flag emoji, and chrome didn’t bother implementing their own (Firefox did), so it displays the initials instead.

    So whatever you do will not be universally supported, thank you Microsoft.