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ELI5:Why do Canadian car models use slightly different icons than the other NA country counterparts?

So I just got my first car, a 2012 Toyota Yaris. I was going through the car manual and I noticed that in the manual it had a few "tweaked" icons for Canadian models. For example, on my US car, when the parking brake is enabled it says "BRAKE" in red letters, but it said for the Canadian model it had this weird symbol that looked like a "!" inside (). I went to get my mom's car book from her Mercedes, and it was the same situation. It wasn't just those icons too. It was almost like Canada doesn't allow text for icons? Can someone explain this? I never understood.
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it is the other way around, there are standardized universal symbols/icons for stuff in a car used by car manufacturers in almost all their cars. but America require them to be written in English, i think top gear made fun of that once.