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Azozzzz

We want the Arabic language back, please 😭💔

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SpideyFunko

guys i think this person wants the arabic language back but i could be wrong

Azozzzz

I really want 💔

Azozzzz

How we can get back 🥹

SummonerNR

From Kabam earlier this year (all Right-to-Left languages and object placement problems), it is NOT just a simple matter of text translation.

from https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/299842/what-is-the-reason-for-deleting-the-arabic-language#latest

Hey Everyone

I wanted to give a bit more insight on this topic because I think it warrants a thorough explanation from a more technical angle.

Supporting RTL languages like Arabic means flipping almost the entire UI horizontally. While we have some decent tech to handle this flip; there are often many edge cases where elements get flipped incorrectly and it pretty much just breaks the user interface. This means whenever we create a new screen or modify an existing one we almost inevitably will get a bunch of bugs relating to RTL layout. To fix this we often have to use a bunch of weird hacky workarounds and then make sure these fixes don’t break the game in the LTR format. In addition to this, I am told by our Loc team that there exist many intricacies in the Arabic language, that when pushed into our text components can cause them to not render correctly. This then requires them to go in manually and insert hidden extra characters to make it display correctly.

We have done all of the above over the years because we value our Arabic players but there comes a point where it is no longer worth all of this effort in order to support the language. It genuinely makes me sad to think that there will be players that can no longer enjoy the Contest because we no longer support a language that they know and can fully understand. It’s, unfortunately, one of those things where every day we spend supporting RTL is a day we can’t spend fixing and making other things, and thus it no longer makes sense to support it.