Back when I was making WIN32 apps (that at the time didn't have a layout manager), the hardest languages to localize for were: * German, simply because the Ger

Back when I was making WIN32 apps (that at the time didn't have a layout manager), the hardest languages to localize for were: * German, simply because the German translations we were using were twice as long. I don't speak German so I couldn't judge if all those extra words were required. * Simplified Chinese, because the default font in that language was huge - single characters would take twice the width (and more irritatingly, height) of an English character. * Japanese, partly because the default font was also large but mostly because the multibyte character codes (this was before unicode support) for common words included bytes that were commonly used for separators in other languages. So things like backslash path seperators (which Japan didn't use) would have to be handled with extreme care in the code.