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Re:Internationalizing 99designs by lars512 on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @09:11PM (#5903120)
Thanks! Even moving to CJK will be fun, though a right-to-left script sounds like it could break all kinds of layout assumptions.
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Re:Internationalizing 99designs by bricestacey on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @12:47AM (#5903784)
It seems you're already over the hurdle of not assuming other languages have the same grammar as English. From my experience (internationalizing a site for English and Japanese with both heavy back and front end rendering) with that groundwork laid, at least Japanese is relatively simple.

A favorite solution for varying lengths of content is html's flex box. Luckily I only had to support WebKit.

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