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Re:Show HN: I made a website that color-codes the world by l... by zarzavat on Friday July 14, 2023 @08:56PM (#36732025)
Interface language != spoken language. If you are Ukrainian you might choose an interface in Russian or English for many reasons, familiarity, quality, etc. Maybe they don’t want to context-switch.

For most Ukrainians, Russian is (was?) a happy medium between being a language that they understand, and a language that is well supported in localizations.

I speak en-GB but I prefer an interface in en-US. Yet if you asked me to speak en-US with all its grammatical, lexical and phonological differences intact I would fail because my understanding is read-only.

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Re:Show HN: I made a website that color-codes the world by l... by sam_lowry_ on Saturday July 15, 2023 @06:29AM (#36735310)
en_GB vs en_US is largely a locale choice. Many developers in EU choose en_IE to have English translations, €, Monday 1st day of the week and comma as fractional separator.

Ukrainian vs Russian is a cultural choice. I sm sure that 80/20 ratio is old news by now, anyway.

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