Graphic Design Question: Interfaces and Language-Switching

[dewline]

Call for advice re: language-switching in interface design. Assuming a multilingual crew, and the desirability to be able to switch a given console between users' languages at need/whim, has anyone figured out a good visual shorthand for specific languages? Say, if I want hot buttons for the six official languages of the United Nations plus a handful of the more heavily used alternatives (and one button for "all the rest that our OS programmers could anticipate agent-crew using")?

Also noting: Stratum family fonts are great for text in languages using the Latin alphabet, but limited to that writing system.

Comments

[resonant.livejournal.com]

There are the ISO codes, but people might not know that "zh" is for the various Chinese languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Okay, that looks like it could work within the framework I've got in mind. ISO 639-1, with its two-letter codes, might make for the best fit. Give me a few minutes...

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Here's what I had in mind... (https://www.flickr.com/photos/dwight_ew/23441789872/)