Quote Originally Posted by mc12345678 View Post
Regarding the default installatiion and file/folder permissions, as ihungil commented, there are other "helpers" (documentation) that guide the store owner to properly apply security settings. ...
As a minor lesson learned of my own, file permissions may be different than folder permissions.
Yes, I understood after reading the linked articles that folders usually should have permissions set to 777 or 755 and files to 644 or 444. Thus, I think I made a correct decision when setting permissions to 755 instead of 700 for some folders in the freshly added language packages. All files in them had 644 or 444, so I did not touch them. I think that leaving 700 for those folders would have started to make troubles for me sooner or later: already these flag icons that were in their proper places after installing the language packages did not show up on the front-end until I had not changed the catalog permissions from 700 to 755. So I can only agree with the following:
Just because the installer walks away with the settings as they are, does not mean that they are to remain that way after installation.