Demo Looks Great Until German User Content Hits Production

Description

A two-panel American Psycho meme featuring Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale). The top panel shows him looking pleased with the text 'IMPRESSIVE, VERY NICE'. The bottom panel shows his expression shifting to concern with 'NOW SHOW ME HOW IT LOOKS IN PRODUCTION WITH GERMAN USER CONTENT'. The joke targets the classic internationalization (i18n) problem where UI designs look perfect with English text but break catastrophically with German, which is notorious for extremely long compound words (like 'Rindfleischetikettierungsueberwachungsaufgabenuebertragungsgesetz'). The imgflip.com watermark is visible

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Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick German is the integration test for your CSS. If your layout survives 'Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung' in a button label, it can survive anything

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

German is the integration test for your CSS. If your layout survives 'Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung' in a button label, it can survive anything
Anonymous

A UI that works with 'lorem ipsum' but not 'Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz' is the definition of technical debt with interest compounded in umlauts
@poppelr 9mo

Yeah.........
@tokimonatakanimekat 9mo

German? Dev, please, we got Cyrillic, Arabic and, god forbid, Chinese Traditional
1. Ve 9mo
  
  What's the problem with Chinese Traditional? Didn't encounter many issues with Chinese Simplified Aside from everything looking more compressed due to content taking way less space
  
  @tokimonatakanimekat 9mo
  
  Had issues with accessibility because it scales down too much
@sysoevyarik 9mo

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@Crusader 9mo

Пошел гуглить что это, повеселило
1. dev_meme 9mo
  
  Please, we use only English around dev_meme 🙏
2. @deadgnom32 9mo
  
  well, it's shorter
@SamsonovAnton 9mo

Nearly every application at larger font sizes. 🥲👓
@m0n0x41d 9mo

Oh yeah, fucking "LLM based OCR"
@m0n0x41d 9mo

(with no evaluations, written by the grug brained coders)