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by webdever 475 days ago
that's a common issue. I worked on a Japanese product where most of the words were 2 characters and they had made horizontal menus that fit 5 buttons across (mobile). You can imagine that didn't work with anything other than Chinese. Yea, they had to redsign.

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new|save|set|info|end didn’t cut it?
Sure if you want to be too terse. I'd say most people would want

Start|Save|Settings|Info|Exit

At a minimum but given the style, both that and yours would be super cramped given the font size they wanted.

Further, the post is about German

Start|Speichern|Einstellungen|Info|Beenden

(no idea if those are correct)

Also, those buttons I made up. I what I remember something like 通信 being one button.