The flags are from famfamfam.com I believe and they originally had the separate countries, but the countries
not in the "ISO standard" got removed.
Other people also started requesting changes, etc. and got a bit out of control (See:
25 pages of deciding the flag feature).
As much as we'd prefer to be recognised by our country and not our 'kingdom', it's what people recognise internationally.
Here's a summary from the previous thread:
quote:
Originally posted by Vazza
I don't care what the international standard ISO 3166 says. There are still four countries not being represented which have every right to be represented....
so basically, in order for scotland to be recognised, we'd have to be completely independant from everyone else?
quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
I know many people will roll their eyes reading all this. 'Cause why discussion something like this? And they probably are right... But still... This is the very same discussion as to why adding translation X but not translation Y to Plus!. With the major big difference that this flag feature is brand new and now it is the time to settle this, not after it is 3 years old... So I think a proper decision should be made now (and a proper standard should be followed instead of some loose random list), or such discussions like these will pop up later on again.
(it is 3 years old now
)
quote:
Originally posted by wj
It's just broken down differently. If we are going to break down the UK, you might as well break down the US to the individual states which all have flags.
We'll just stick to the ISO standard for countries.
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