Fwd: translatoid

[David Baron]

On Thursday 06 August 2009 14:16:09 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Thursday 06 August 2009, sacha schutz wrote:
> > Maybe we can recreate Flags in Svg. This may be long, but drawings are
> > easy
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SVG_flags
>
> flag images are not copyrightable, so we could just harvest all of those.

Dagesh word processor has a very complete bunch of decent looking flag-icons. 
This is a proprietary older windows app but there are utilies to harvest and 
convert these.

Question do we need permission to extract this. Original publisher no longer 
exists. Program is still sold and marginally maintained (many years since last 
fixes, one of which I did) by Galtech in Jerusalem. This WP puts 
language/country up from rather than hidden away as a font-property. Oldest 
and maybe only WP to do multilingual nicely.