Crazy how there’s “two billion people” who can read Arabic and seemingly 0 of them are making serious contributions to Arabic text rendering except this one specific guy.
Weird.
Weird.
And there are plenty of people other than this guy making contributions to it, you’ve only just read a singular post by a single person outlining his most common gripes with companies that do not consult native speakers for their translations. It’s not an exhaustive list of people working in the sphere. Imagine if you read a blog post by Linus Torvalds, and thought: ‘wow, it’s crazy that no one else is making contributions to this cool open source kernel?’ - that’s exactly what you’ve done in your comment.
how do I interpret that? something like "hundreds of millions of arabs constitute a minority of 2 billion"? or are you saying that vast majorities in the arab countries don't use arabic script to write things daily?
Many can't even get the spaces before and after punctuation right, even though the correct way involves no irregularities.
If 1 person does the job very well others don't have to. That's the way we make progress in software.
I think in software once there's one great, free implementation of a hard problem there's a tendency to stick with it. If that project is maintained by one person, then so be it.
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