{"id":36310,"date":"2022-06-23T17:49:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T21:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=36310"},"modified":"2023-01-30T15:50:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T20:50:28","slug":"flag-icons-to-change-the-input-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/23\/flag-icons-to-change-the-input-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Flag Icons to Change the Input Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2022\/06\/two_new_apps_to_flag\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2022\/06\/two_new_apps_to_flag\">\n<p>[As] part of a company-wide effort to decouple national flags as icons to denote languages, the Input menu in MacOS now uses two letter codes instead (&ldquo;US&rdquo; for U.S. English, &ldquo;GB&rdquo; for British, etc.). [The] new policy does make sense for Apple&#x2009;&mdash;&#x2009;national flags carry political connotations that languages alone do not&#x2009;&mdash;&#x2009;but it&rsquo;s unfortunate for users accustomed to scanning the menu for colorful icons at a glance when switching.<\/p>\n<p>Two third-party developers have come to the rescue, with similar apps that restore the &ldquo;pick a flag to change input sources&rdquo; functionality[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/09\/taiwan-flag-removed-from-ios-emoji-keyboard-in-hong-kong\/\">Taiwan Flag Removed from iOS Emoji Keyboard in Hong Kong<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/29\/macos-10-14-4-restricts-taiwan-flag-emoji-in-china\/\">macOS 10.14.4 Restricts Taiwan Flag Emoji in China<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber: [As] part of a company-wide effort to decouple national flags as icons to denote languages, the Input menu in MacOS now uses two letter codes instead (&ldquo;US&rdquo; for U.S. English, &ldquo;GB&rdquo; for British, etc.). [The] new policy does make sense for Apple&#x2009;&mdash;&#x2009;national flags carry political connotations that languages alone do not&#x2009;&mdash;&#x2009;but it&rsquo;s unfortunate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-06-23T21:49:40Z","apple_news_api_id":"f9b70221-1dd2-430a-b08b-cd2d0f55361d","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-01-30T20:50:31Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A-bcCIR3SQwqwi80tD1U2HQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1547,2333,423,309,30,32,2077],"class_list":["post-36310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-china","tag-hong-kong","tag-keyboard","tag-localization","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-12"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36311,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36310\/revisions\/36311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}