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That is a i18n issue with the website itself? Or are you saying you know a good portion of a language, but you aren't fluent, so you read it in whatever the default language is, by default, without translating the page or using it in your native language?

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Depends. Sometimes I know the language partially, sometimes I can move around using pure context, and other times translation is possible in most pages.

Disabling selection in non-textual parts of websites is unfortunately something that happens quite frequently, but people rarely notice.

This is naturally for websites without i18n. Very common especially in government and public websites.

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