[greazy]

So what should be used as the icon for languages?

I accidently changed languages in my phone to Arabic on android. It uses no icons to display languages, when a language is chosen all the options changed to the localized Arabic names.

I think the only logical solution is to display the options in the language, eh Arabic in Arabic letters, English in English letters etc.

But icons would still be useful. But there isn't a universally accepted icon for any language.

[creatonez]

A good solution: for each language option, include both the exonym (name of the language in the user's currently selected language) and the endonym (name of the language in that particular language). Make sure the search feature can fuzzy match either field.

And yes, do not include any icons whatsoever. Text only. A standard for visual depiction of languages is not going to come any time soon, and flags are completely unsuitable for the purpose.

[112233]

> So what should be used as the icon for languages?

For each language, show name of language in that language + name of language in currently selected language.

Languages are hard.