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This sentiment generalizes pretty well as a bilingual programmer, or even just a bilingual user of a lot of tech. - Silent localization of decimal separator in
by fouronnes3 3y ago
This sentiment generalizes pretty well as a bilingual programmer, or even just a bilingual user of a lot of tech.
- Silent localization of decimal separator in Libre Office calc.
- Localization of error messages (much harder googling). I have known hundreds of french software engineers, absolutely no one cares for GCC errors in french.
- Google search trying to be way to smart. Good luck trying to figure out how to get English results for a word that has the same spelling in french.
- The entire keyboard layout software stack being a giant us-centric leaky abstraction at every layer.
- And the absolute worst of all: automatic translation of YouTube video titles with neither possibility to opt-out or consent, for both viewer and author.
- xattt 3y agoI want to use Siri in English, French and Russian, but HomeKit only lets you set names of rooms and devices in a single language.
- folmar 3y ago> Good luck trying to figure out how to get English results for a word that has the same spelling in french. Quite easy just not discoverable but if you remember query parameters from 20 years ago it's easy, just remove _all_ query parameters except `q` (the query itself) from the URL and append parameter `hl=en`, then click `show only results in English`. Google was always very bad with often mixing translation and localisation.