[elldoubleyew]

Note that for many languages a flag is not displayed rather a symbol. Chinese languages in particular follow this (拼 for simplified pinyin, 注 for traditional zhuyin).

Also Japanese never displayed a flag (あ for hiragana, ア for katakana).

I think it's better to follow this convention.

[_moof]

Arabic as well. Loads of examples of such languages, with huge numbers of speakers. I think this is a reasonable change (and always found the colored icon in the menu bar to be gaudy anyway).