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Signatures should be localizable
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It would be helpful if signatures could display differently depending on the viewer's language, such that a user could set one version of their signature to display for English users, one for Korean users, etc.

(I haven't the slightest idea how this could be feasible, but it would be useful if possible nonetheless.)


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Severity: enhancement

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Can you please indicate what the value of this feature is? I fail to see a lot of value, at the expense of adding complex UI interactions.

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Can you please indicate what the value of this feature is? I fail to see a
lot
of value, at the expense of adding complex UI interactions.

It is frequently frustrating to see signatures in incomprehensible scripts. If there are many users in a thread whose usernames are series of Chinese characters, it can be difficult for readers who can't read Chinese to hold onto the flow of the thread when distinguishing the signatures is difficult.

Flow does not use signatures. However, see T90055: [Spike] Changing the displayed username, in Flow for a related concept (but simpler, since there is no per-language aspect). If you want to ask for a Flow feature regarding display names, please file separately.

if it is an insult or a bad slogan for some language ... insult that would be uncontrolled shown in each message, which will see the select people...

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