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I worked for a place that used German as the "placeholder text", to avoid the problem of text longer than the allotted space. German is supposedly about 1.5 times as long as English, so if you can fit the German version, you won't have any problems with other translations being longer than the space.


German is longer than English, but there are other languages where the difference is even more noticeable, e.g. French.




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