Bug 149141

Summary: The flag of Belarus is incorrect
Product: [Translations] i18n Reporter: Ivan <ivanstoloyarchuk>
Component: generalAssignee: Stephan Kulow <coolo>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: aacid, alesis.vasileuski, ihar.hrachyshka
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: It is the official flag of Belarus .png version
.svg version of flag

Description Ivan 2007-08-23 17:50:36 UTC 
Version:           all (using KDE KDE 3.5.7)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc-4.1.2 
OS:                Linux

Please note, that offical flag of Belarus is NOT white-red-white.
Official belorussian symbol could be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus
I`ll wish to use the OFFICIAL flag with kde.
Comment 1 Ivan 2007-08-23 18:45:35 UTC 
Created attachment 21466 [details]
It is the official flag of Belarus .png version
Comment 2 Ivan 2007-08-23 18:50:50 UTC 
Comment on attachment 21466 [details]
It is the official flag of Belarus .png version

><?xml version="1.0"?><html><head><link rel="stylesheet" media="screen, projection, tv, handheld" href="file://localhost/opt/opera/share/opera/styles/image.css"/></head><body><div><img src=""/></div></body></html>
Comment 3 Ivan 2007-08-23 18:54:40 UTC 
Created attachment 21467 [details]
.svg version of flag
Comment 4 Yevgeny Kosarzhevsky 2007-08-23 23:31:26 UTC 
this is not a bug, but feature. KDE uses Belarusian historical flag
Comment 6 Darafei Praliaskouski 2007-08-24 07:52:18 UTC 
The former white–red–white flag of Belarus used from 1991 until 1995, now used by nationalist opposition. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus] 
That's really annoying bug.
http://president.gov.by/en/press10664.html - another link on topic.
Comment 7 Serzh 2007-08-28 21:35:47 UTC 
This is not a bug.
Comment 8 Ivan 2007-08-28 21:39:35 UTC 
Thi is a problem
Comment 9 Ivan 2007-08-28 22:08:28 UTC 
And if have such diffrent opinions about Belarussian flag, I think, that it will be better for everybody to have choice. Let it be two flags, and every user can switch the flag he likes more.
Comment 10 integer 2008-01-26 21:47:50 UTC 
White:red:white flag gets under clause. It is not safe to use this flag in official places.
Comment 11 integer 2008-01-26 21:54:45 UTC 
Hm... if you want to use KDE on official level you MUST change flag.
Comment 12 integer 2008-01-26 21:55:52 UTC 
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
Comment 13 Maksim Orlovich 2008-01-26 22:30:30 UTC 
Please contact the translation team, see their info at 
http://i18n.kde.org/team-infos.php?teamcode=be
Comment 14 Darafei Praliaskouski 2008-01-26 22:56:35 UTC 
In fact, flag that is used currently in KDE (white-red-white) does not represent Republuc of Belarus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus], but inexistent now Belarus National Republic [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus_National_Republic].
Comment 15 Ihar Hrachyshka 2008-10-19 06:19:45 UTC 
Any news? The current "white" flag on l10n statistics page is just weird...
Comment 16 Albert Astals Cid 2008-10-19 18:23:43 UTC 
Any idea where we use the old flag? If you don't say where it is we can't fix it...
Comment 17 Marek Laane 2008-10-19 18:56:28 UTC 
Is there the compromise possible? As there is two "belarusian", I'd say, "official" Cyrillic and Latin, maybe official state flag for Cyrillic and old/oppositional flag for Latin?
Comment 18 Ihar Hrachyshka 2008-10-19 19:42:44 UTC 
Statistics pages are fixed. Also you should check if the current KDE keyboard indicator has the right flag shown in panel and in kcm_locale module (I can't do it because I don't have a system with KDE4 installed, as for now).
Comment 19 Albert Astals Cid 2008-10-19 19:52:34 UTC 
I don't see why we need a compromise here, Belarus has a flag and KDE uses it. It's simple.

I can't see anywhere we use the old flag, if you see it reopen the bug. If you convince your government to change the flag, reopen the bug.