[theme-reviewers] front facing text

[Chip Bennett]

The reason we require all front-facing *text* to be in English is so that
it is is translatable, with a known default translation.

Text in images isn't translatable, and as such wouldn't fall under a
translation-related guideline.

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.


On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:

> Text is a text, whether in content or in image form. Guideline should
> still apply just the same.
> On Apr 12, 2014 11:51 AM, "Mercime" <mercijavier at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> I would actually go with all "viewable" text rendered by the theme
>>> should be in English.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Edward Caissie
>>> aka Cais.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 11:37 AM, carolina poena <myazalea at hotmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> All front facing text must be in English
>>>> This doesn't include screenshots does it?
>>>>
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