<div dir="ltr">The reason we require all front-facing *text* to be in English is so that it is is translatable, with a known default translation.<div><br></div><div>Text in images isn't translatable, and as such wouldn't fall under a translation-related guideline.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If non-English text in a screenshot is found to be offensive, it can be dealt with on a case-by-case basis. I don't see any need to burden developers with producing screenshots containing only English text, just because of the off-chance, theoretical risk that it could be offensive.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Emil Uzelac <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emil@uzelac.me" target="_blank">emil@uzelac.me</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p dir="ltr">Text is a text, whether in content or in image form. Guideline should still apply just the same.</p><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 12, 2014 11:51 AM, "Mercime" <<a href="mailto:mercijavier@gmail.com" target="_blank">mercijavier@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">One concern re non-English text in screenshots is that we don't know if the text is derogatory to women, another country or religion, etc.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Edward Caissie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edward.caissie@gmail.com" target="_blank">edward.caissie@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">I would actually go with all "viewable" text rendered by the theme should be in English.<div><br><div>I would not be too concerned with the screenshot's text as that is more a visual representation of the theme where the text should really be more "placeholder" than anything else ... now, if that placeholder text is "spammy" in some way that may need to be addressed.</div>
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</font></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div>Edward Caissie<br>aka Cais.</div>
<br><br></font></span><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 11:37 AM, carolina poena <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:myazalea@hotmail.com" target="_blank">myazalea@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div dir="ltr">All front facing text must be in English<br>This doesn't include screenshots does it?<br> </div></div>
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