[bisq-network/bisq-website] [WIP] Remove flags in locale selector (#243)

[wiz]

> Which flag would you use to represent Chinese Traditional or Chinese Simplified?

For the third time, we are not using flags to represent languages, we are using flags to represent the country in a country-specific locale. For generic non-country-specific locales, such as English, we use the globe icon to indicate the lack of country-specific localizations. A country-specific localized version of the Bisq website will contain country-specific information, such as payment method details.

As an example, for Japan we intend to have two locales: "Japanese :jp:" and "English :jp:" which will contain Japan-specific payment method information. Users from Japan will be automatically redirected to one of those 2 locales depending on the Accept-Language header their browser sends, and the result of looking up their IP address in a Geo-IP database.

Keep in mind, we are not the first people to localize software for the whole world, and we are simply following industry standards. For example, FedEx is an international company and their website also supports English and Japanese country-specific locales for Japan.

Please refer to this list of the ~150 preconstructed locales in Java, and you will see that many of them are indeed country-specific:

https://www.viralpatel.net/java-locale-list-tutorial/

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