Do your regional websites talk funny?
summary
Practical CSS and localization details: explains that Chinese and Korean use 10,000- and 100,000-based large-number words, recounts a localization bug where a numeric variable saved as “200” (in billions) renders as 210 million in translations, recommends using established libraries like i18next for plural and interpolation rules, warns about Vietnamese characters occupying noncontiguous Unicode ranges, shows using the CSS :lang selector and carefully ordered font stacks (Latin-first to avoid Apple SD Gothic Neo’s missing Latin‑1 Supplement) to keep typography consistent.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction to i18n
- 3:08Defining i18n nuances
- 5:57Translation and interpolation
- 10:54The importance of spacers
- 13:57Font stacks and typography
- 18:26Edge cases and conclusions
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