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Re:The Awful German Language (1880) by robaato on Saturday October 06, 2018 @07:42AM (#18154630)
Having been involved in writing internationalised software, you can get into trouble if you don't leave enough space for your labels, button captions, messages etc to be translated into another language which may requires 10-50% more space.

An example: https://medium.com/dropbox-design/design-for-internationaliz...

From what I can see guidance is that Finnish and German are typically quite a bit longer than English...

Re:The Awful German Language (1880) by Koshkin on Saturday October 06, 2018 @09:40AM (#18155076)
This is partly a consequence of these languages using the alphabet that was designed to serve a different language. (Another striking example is Vietnamese.)