Codeforces Language Picker

Fixes Codeforces language picker by replacing flags with language names

Codeforces Language Picker Chrome Extension

Codeforces Language Picker is a Chrome extension that replaces flags with language names in the language picker on Codeforces, addressing the misuse of flags as language indicators. It encourages the use of language names instead of flags, as recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

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By: 0xc0ffee

Users: 21

Version: 0.0.2 (Last updated: 2022-06-28)

Creation date: 2022-05-03

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Size: 49.39K

Email: bo*****@gmail.com

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# 107,254 ▲ 1,300

Other rankings

#6958 in Accessibility ▼ 31 #95 in language keyword 20 ▲ 81 #108 in flag keyword 12 ▼ 2 #186 in country keyword 11 ▼ 2

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This extension is not a solution, not even a workaround. This is an example of how Codeforces may look like without an incorrect use of flags. Please reach out to Codeforces admins and ask them to fix that language picker.

Why? Because flags represent countries, not languages!

Flag may mean different things like country, citizenship, currency, location, etc, when a language is a means of communication. There is no one-to-one connection between languages and flags, because one country is not necessarily one language, and one language doesn't belong to one country only. Flag also may carry political agenda, tolerable in some societies, but unacceptable in others.

Using flags as language indicators is discouraged by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and is considered to be a bad practice. More details on the suggestion not to use flags as language indicators can be found at World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Working Group Note 03 June 2014, see https://www.w3.org/TR/i18n-html-tech-lang.