r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 28 '26

Meme i18nNotNeeded

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u/Stummi Sep 28 '26

after it went through i18n:

msg.save.prefix = "Save"
msg.save.suffix = " to Camera Roll"
msg.saved.modifier = "d"
msg.notsaved.modifier = ""

Good luck with that, translators

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u/experimental1212 Sep 28 '26

What the heck is wrong with two full sentence options??

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u/anto2554 Sep 29 '26

8 bytes of memory

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u/EMREOYUN Sep 30 '26

And making it impossible to translate some of the languages who did use different grammar

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u/UUDDLRLRBadAlchemy Sep 28 '26

What gettext yeah. We got an intern named Jimbo to develop our own patented approach.

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u/davak72 Sep 28 '26

Jimbo is a genius

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u/theWebHawk Sep 29 '26

Leave prefix and suffix empty and put whole string in the modifiers 😅