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Falsehoods programmers believe about languages (localization)

This is what we have to put up with in the software localisation industry.

Segmenting a sentence into words is as easy as splitting on whitespace (and maybe punctuation). Segmenting a text into sentences is as easy as splitting on end-of-sentence punctuation. Icons that are based on English puns and wordplay are easily understood by speakers of other languages.

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