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Translation/Internationalisation is one of the hardest problem that is not going to be solved by technology only.

RTL, plural depending on the number, non-latin char behavior, font issues, UI broken by longer translation, context dependent translation, etc. Every time I start a project or think about it I'm sweating.

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well, at least we are trying to solve i18n with tech https://github.com/inlang/inlang :D

I don’t see any real way to deal with it except overstaffing (not gonna happen), designing everything into discrete horizontal lines, or simply coming to terms with the idea that some locales will break more than others, depending on who you are and who your customer base is. And deciding what you’re gonna do about that when it arises.

Buttons are gonna look jacked up in German because all their words are 45 letters long. RTL plays havoc with the layout. Referring to Taiwan the wrong way is a Defcon 2 political crisis. And on and on and on, it never fucking ends.

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