Flag refresh [#197395]

Being unsatisfied with the murky looks of my native Danish flag and the (IMHO, ugly) compression of the UK one, I decided I'd do those over for my own site. Then I figured I might as well put those back up for the rest of the community. Then I decided to go all out and do this for all of the flags! (An added bonus is that most (I haven't checked all) of these new PNGs take up less bytes than the current ones. Not much, but...)

Procedure:
Found the flags on Wikipedia and ensured they were in the Public Domain.
Saved the SVGs locally and turned them into GIFs, with a height of 12px.

gif2png -nprsO *.gif
pngcrush -d new -brute -fix -reduce *.png
cd new && tar -czvf ../flags.tgz *.png

Notes:
I couldn't figure what flag to use for Arabic. The flags for Catalonia and Basque Country were licensed under GFDL and CC-sa respectively, thus not included. (Even if they probably aren't able to be licensed as such, as they consist "entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship", I thought it'd be safer/more polite to just leave them alone.) Hence why ar, ca, and eu are not included in this bundle.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#17	ro.png	146 bytes	kerberos
#14	pl.png	121 bytes	Freso
#12	ca.png	132 bytes	geraldito
#10	pt-PT.png	271 bytes	Freso
#10	pt-BR.png	313 bytes	Freso
#10	ar.png	272 bytes	Freso
#9	sa.png	430 bytes	doomed
#8	pt.png	228 bytes	doomed
#6	ca.png	130 bytes	geraldito
#1	flags2.zip	19 KB	pkej
	flags.tgz	6.52 KB	Freso

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Comments

Comment #1

pkej CreditAttribution: pkej commented 28 December 2007 at 11:05

File	Size
flags2.zip	19 KB

Adding flags for Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk. (nn and nb) and Northern Sami (se).

Comment #2

Jose Reyero CreditAttribution: Jose Reyero commented 17 February 2008 at 14:49

Status:

Reviewed & tested by the community

» Needs review

These ones are different size, aren't they?

Comment #3

Freso CreditAttribution: Freso commented 17 February 2008 at 17:42

The current images aren't uniformly sized. Having them sized non-uniformly will allow the flags to actually keep their proper ratios, even when resized/uniformed - and it will allow sites to use flags in their proper ratio. (E.g. allow the Union Jack to be a bit wider than the Dannebrog.)

I'm fairly sure I presented quite some documentation about why this is a good thing in relation to a bug report where setting the (presented) flag image size to "" (empty string) yielded an error... but, alas, I can't find that one now. Anyway, forcing uniformity onto the flag image size will result in distorted images, like the not-so-pretty Dannebrog currently in the collection (which was the reason I started this little project in the first place). I still hold the claim that these images are (far?) better than the current ones, and that I don't see why non-uniformity is a bad thing, and that the current images aren't uniform with regards to size (not even height! at least this set have all height=12px).

Edit: Alright, so maybe there weren't a whole bunch of arguments, but I did note that flags currently in CVS are of different sizes and that the official flag specifications vary with regards to the dimensions. (E.g. Dannebrog (...) has a ratio of 28:37, while the Union Flag (...) has a 1:2 ratio.) See #197403: "Undefined offset" notices when giving an empty image size.

Comment #4

Jose Reyero CreditAttribution: Jose Reyero commented 22 February 2008 at 17:12

Version:	master	» 6.x-1.x-dev
Status:	Needs review	» Needs work

This makes sense.

However, if we are using different sized flags, we need some type of container for them, otherwise the UI won't look very nice.

We could either resize to some max width and height, then use a div container with fixed size or, maybe easier, add transparent margins to the flag so all the images are actually the same size.

Comment #5

Freso CreditAttribution: Freso commented 23 February 2008 at 21:43

Uhm, Jose, we are already using differently sized flags! And there's the "Image size" option on admin/settings/language/configure/icons which sets the image size and makes sure all the images appear similarly (#197403: "Undefined offset" notices when giving an empty image size fixed this for those of us who want to display the images in their proper ratio). All this batch does is update the flag graphics to be more true to the official flag colours and size ratios. Actually, this batch at least standardises on a height (12px), which is more than can be said about the images currently in the repos.

And I think I just realised that you may have simply meant something that would keep the text aligned. That is actually a good idea, but couldn't that be put into an issue of its own? I don't see why that should hold up adding these flag graphics to the repos, replacing the old ones.

Comment #6

geraldito CreditAttribution: geraldito commented 27 February 2008 at 10:56

File	Size
ca.png	130 bytes

As the flag for Catalonia at Wikipedia (http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imatge:Flag_of_Catalonia.svg) are non-free I just painted it. Attached in size 16x11.

I noticed a problem with Catalan at localizer: it uses CA as country code for Catalan but at the same time the country code top-level domain CA stands for Canada. so I just substituted the ca.png with the Catalan flag to make it work for me. but as solution I propose to change the extension localizer uses for Catalan language to CAT (official TLD for Catalan language) or AD-CA (Andorra is the only official state which uses Catalan as its official language).

Comment #7

Freso CreditAttribution: Freso commented 27 February 2008 at 11:16

@geraldito:

Please make the flag have a height of 12px, so that the images may be consistent in one dimension.
Country code and language code are not the same. The official language code for Catalan is, indeed, "ca". (Check Wikipedia's List of ISO 639-1 codes.) The official language codes for Canada would be en[-CA] and fr[-CA] – [Canadian] English and [Canadian] French respectively. (Also, if you find other issues in the future, it's generally better to open a new issue for them, so that issues can stay focussed.)

Comment #8

doomed CreditAttribution: doomed commented 19 March 2008 at 00:23

File	Size
pt.png	228 bytes

Here's a flag for Portugal , 18x12 , 228 bytes (1kb)

According to Wikipedia:

Portuguese is one of the world's major languages, ranked sixth according to number of native speakers (approximately 250 million).

Btw, i did it, so its free to use.

Comment #9

doomed CreditAttribution: doomed commented 19 March 2008 at 00:41

File	Size
sa.png	430 bytes

And inspired by the original post, i did a flag for Saudi Arabia.

I understand this is a very special flag, my drawing doesnt really have anything written in there, just something that looks like the original when seen in its original size which is 18x12 .

The S.A. flag for comparison - http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/s/sa.gif

Comment #10

Freso CreditAttribution: Freso commented 20 March 2008 at 18:21

File	Size
ar.png	272 bytes
pt-BR.png	313 bytes
pt-PT.png	271 bytes

@doomed: As part Portuguese, I miss the little thingy in the yellow patch of the flag, so here that is. I've also attached a Brazilian flag for those preferring pt-BR to pt-PT. I also gave Saudi Arabia a shot. All three flags were made exactly as described initially (fetching SVG from Wikipedia, resizing into GIF, converting to PNG, "crushing", and done).