Obviously you could code your site for handling these kinds of linguistic difficulties (text longer or shorter) but its been my experience even sites that are supposed to be internationalized do not do a good enough job of taking cross-language display difficulties into consideration, so I don't think people will think, sure my site is in English, but what if Google Translate turns it into Greenlandic?
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Obviously you could code your site for handling these kinds of linguistic difficulties (text longer or shorter) but its been my experience even sites that are supposed to be internationalized do not do a good enough job of taking cross-language display difficulties into consideration, so I don't think people will think, sure my site is in English, but what if Google Translate turns it into Greenlandic?
Chinese/Japanese -> everything else.
They're so terse, two Unicode characters can be like 10+ letters lol
Sometimes I translate to understand the page then refresh to use it unborked in the original language