i wish there was a unicode version of that thing 文A Wikipedia does for language switch
With some CSS you can make it indistinguishable from an icon
I feel like a globe icon is much more obvious.
文<-->A
Sorry for the poor attempt at ascii art. But I've seen some arrow indicating swapping/matching between the two characters. And the choice of characters does cover a huge swath of people on earth. (文 for zh_* + jp, and A for every latin, cyrillic and greek alphabet language) Of course that's still missing a huge chunk of people concerned that it might just swap between two languages not including theirs, but as a universal symbol for "translation" it's probably a good bet that the reader recognizes them as "being related to languages" at minimum since they have most certainly interacted with one of those language groups before. 文↔A
Unicodified version, some fonts don't render it nice thoughScreenshot in case HN strips the Unicode: https://i.imgur.com/yeLxyOe.jpeg