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Pretending ASCII is enough for English is at least understandable. I've seen engineers demanding that we find a localized string for "middle name" in Korean. For a social network product. (Hint: There are no middle names in Korean.)

Some people just don't care.

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Not a great example if it's not a platform for only Korean people. If you have a field for middle name, there will probably be some-one with the language set to Korean still be interested in reading or writing that field (ie expats learning the language, or perhaps people with mixed heritage?). I think assuming because Korean (people) have no middle names you don't need to translate it is more careless than the other way around.

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