That article is more about aesthetics than anything.
Also:
> There is a perfect symbol for any language which you can use on the Web: the name of the language in the language itself, such as English (or British English or US English, if needed). Be careful with the grammatically correct use of upper and lower case here! If a reader doesn't know the name of language X in X, he probably does not know X enough for the link to be of use to him.
So now that I'm on this Korean site, with no idea how "Korean" looks in Korean, how am I supposed to find the language picker?
He is not saying to use the current language's hame for the language picker's icon (I would use a globe, personally), but instead to use the language's name in the list.
Also:
> There is a perfect symbol for any language which you can use on the Web: the name of the language in the language itself, such as English (or British English or US English, if needed). Be careful with the grammatically correct use of upper and lower case here! If a reader doesn't know the name of language X in X, he probably does not know X enough for the link to be of use to him.
So now that I'm on this Korean site, with no idea how "Korean" looks in Korean, how am I supposed to find the language picker?