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Where can I look at English localization strings on Stack Exchange?

This question's title may confuse you, but I'm sure that there are English-to-English translations on each Stack Exchange site that uses the English language as a main in the user interface. For ...
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Space SE: "Question saved to На потом." Why is "for later" shown in Russian? [duplicate]

Moments ago I saved the Space SE question Power and frequency units used in Deep Space Network XML data? and the usual banner appeared, but with mixed English and Russian. Screenshot below at 2022-12-...
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Keyboard shortcuts don't work with a Russian keyboard layout

For example, with a Russian layout we can open only the Help window with Shift + ?. Even for this we have to use a different button on the keyboard (the ? on 7 button). But the rest of the shortcuts ...
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Stack Overflow in ES, PT, RU, JP have mixed-language descriptions

The international Stack Overflow sites in Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and Japanese seem to have a bug in their quick site descriptions (under their titles), for they all start with the word For... ...
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Wrong description for abstract badge tag

The hint on badges page has "Bronze/Silver/Gold Badge" instead of some particular badge's name. bronze badge: Earn at least 100 total score for at least 20 non-community wiki answers in the Bronze ...
Nick Volynkin's user avatar
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On non-English sites, Flagging dialogs use a mix of English and the native language

Currently, there seem to be 4 Stack Exchange sites that are hosted completely in another language (Portuguese SO, Japanese SO, Russian SO, and Russian Language). However, the post-flagging dialogs ...
Awesome Poodles's user avatar
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Help translate the Stack Exchange UI (unofficial)

Earlier this year, I saw a post written by Pekka asking what the state of the nation was regarding localisation. Rob replied that localisation was creeping up Stack Exchange's list of priorities, but ...
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How we can establish useful, thriving communities in other languages?

Joel asked this question on this blog post. I've looked through the questions in this area here, and seen the official policy, but I don't see anything related to that blog post, so this is asking ...
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Localization: The state of the nation?

Out of mere idle curiosity, what is the state of internationalizing the Stack Exchange engine and community creation process? Specifically: A fully localizable UI A crowdsourcing interface to get ...
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Should niche sites be allowed to be multi-lingual?

I understand why Stack Overflow is English-only, and agree with this, but in the response from Jeff to an interesting suggestion from Oscar Reyes, he notes that "for Stack Exchange, this is a ...
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Internationalization and Localization of Stack Overflow [duplicate]

Possible Duplicates: Other language localization Wikipedia Style Localization By the popularity of SO, does our Stack Overflow team has any ideas about internationalizing and localizing ...
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Other language localization

Many "beginner" developers would like SO in other languages (German, French, Spanish). Will this be possible someday?
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