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2019-04-30 , 19:18
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Originally Posted by rinigus View Post
I was expecting to see flag icon variations when searching for languages in a prominent search engine. As a result, it was prominently presented with chat icons using "A" and some symbol from Eastern languages. In our case, where we have geography mixed with linguistics - flags could mean different things . Although, it something that user cannot choose => we can put flags for languages as well.
Do you think of this symbol:
It usually explicitly addresses a dictionary search or translation lookup (of a specific word or phrase), but not a language selection. And it took me years to comprehend it (fortunately this was years ago).

Meanwhile I created a pretty shitty bitmap mockup, providing a rough impression of what I tried to express with words before:
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