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Good languages to test compatibility - mcborzu - 2010-04-25
What are a couple language to test my strings/labels against. Is there a language that is notorious width buster? thx....
- D0nR0s4 - 2010-04-25
I know that german can get kind of annoying sometimes but if I remember it right team blackbolt had to adjust some things because of finish or norwegian or something like that.
- Maxoo - 2010-04-25
I think you should test German and French first, as they are very used.
As said above, finish, norwegian and that kind of languages are useful to test too, because of the accentuated characters.
- ppic - 2010-04-25
you can cont on me for french translation help !
- xbs08 - 2010-04-25
I would like to do the Portuguese European translation
- rcoops - 2010-04-30
Lets see, Greek/Russian maybe a Chinese or Arabic translation file for the interesting long strings that also start on the right and move to the left rather then visa versa. The Nordic languages have some quite long strings for relatively short labels in English.
Besides that if you are looking for difficult character sets that are Latin based use a Slavic language like Czech, Polish or something along those lines or maybe Turkish which also contains interesting characters but
- sho - 2010-04-30
D0nR0sa Wrote:if I remember it right team blackbolt had to adjust some things because of finish or norwegian or something like that.Sure it wasn't something like Tai or Flemish?
- oo_void - 2010-04-30
Not directly related to skin development, but I've run a number of very large i18n web projects in the past (a major software vendor who likes the color yellow for instance
). The general rule of thumb that I give the design teams is to plan for 165% possible text width variance.