How WeChat faded into the silence in India

Re:How WeChat faded into the silence in India by nitwit005 on Monday October 08, 2018 @03:02PM (#18170288)

> WeChat seems to have never tried very hard to adapt their app for international users.

Seems fairly bad from the developer side, from a look at their documentation. Some of the instructions seem to direct you to use a Chinese UI: https://open.wechat.com/cgi-bin/newreadtemplate?t=overseas_o...

And there's some licensing requirements that, while translated, seem to be Chinese business licenses?

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Re:How WeChat faded into the silence in India by zamber on Monday October 08, 2018 @05:54PM (#18171656)

> other languages might cause overflowing UI elements because the translated text is longer than accounted for.

Ignoring the China context, it's good to take char count (possibly correcting for char width) for all strings in all translations and doing a edge-testing localization. QAs will know how to walk through the app without understandable text but they'll be able to spot overflows easily then.

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