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From: Christophe Besson <cbesson@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 03:11:22 +0200
Subject: fix(hub): drop the flag emoji from the language menu
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The flags were regional-indicator pairs, which Windows has never shipped a
glyph for: Segoe UI Emoji renders the pair as its two letters, so the menu
read "GB", "FR", "NL" down the left-hand side instead of a flag. It only ever
looked right on a system with an emoji font that draws them, such as GNOME's.

Names only, rather than vendoring ten flag images. A flag is a country and
not a language anyway — none of them is the right answer for "Português
(Brasil)" — and each name is already written in its own language, which is
the self-identifying signal the flag was standing in for.

The `flag` field is removed from LOCALES rather than left unread; app.js's
menu was its only consumer. The submenu keeps its indent from
.user-menu-sub's padding, not from the icon box that is now gone.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01V8EDjk6pkYZrCbo63m2x87
---
 packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/app.js | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/app.js')

diff --git a/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/app.js b/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/app.js
index aa0034c..9f925c3 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/app.js
+++ b/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/app.js
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ function UserMenu({ user, theme, onThemeChange, onLogout }) {
           ${langOpen && LOCALES.map(l => html`
             <button key=${l.code} class="user-menu-item user-menu-sub"
               onClick=${() => { setLocale(l.code); window.location.reload(); }}>
-              <span class="umi-icon">${l.flag}</span> ${l.name}
+              ${l.name}
               ${getLocale() === l.code
                 && html`<${Icon} name="check" cls="umi-check" />`}
             </button>
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