What’s the preferred order of a language dropdown?
Right now i have it sorted by language code which seems reasonable but some language codes for some smaller languages are kinda weird, so the ordering might be unexpected
Unicode codepoint would have issues with languages that are written in multiple scripts (say, serbian) where the two language variants are split apart due to using different scripts.
Romanization has issues with language (families) which share one or two orthographies but have different pronunciations and romanization schemes. As such stuff like arabic or chinese languages would be split apart in the list, which is probably unexpected.
I could of course group languages and sort with the other two methods but then i wouldn’t know which is the “canonical” language to sort by
@charlotte I feel like the answer here is "any option that feels consistent to a lay person", which rules out a lot of options, like code points.
The ones I have always found most usable are the ones that list languages by their English name, and sort it by that as well. I learned the English word for Swedish pretty quickly :)
