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		whizzkid on Jan 15, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen to Yo... It made me remember the Norwegian customer I had. I needed to write Norwegian localization strings in a YAML file which did not work for some reason. After 4 hours of debugging, the problem was; In YAML, the "no:" string (for "norwegian") defined in a YAML file was parsed as a boolean, and this makes the application broke..

mcphage on Jan 15, 2015 [–]

Yeah, I've run into that, also. Really annoying. I had to quote all of the "no": strings. Looked ugly, but what can you do?

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