http://simonwillison.net/2019-04-18T21:09:31+00:00Simon Willison2019-04-18T21:09:31+00:002019-04-18T21:09:31+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2019/Apr/18/using-html-lang-attribute/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://developer.paciellogroup.com/blog/2016/06/using-the-html-lang-attribute/">Using the HTML lang attribute</a></strong></p> TIL the HTML lang attribute is used by screen readers to understand how to provide the correct accent and pronunciation. <p><small></small>Via <a href="https://twitter.com/LittleKope/status/1118953008610652167">Lindsey Kopacz</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/accessibility">accessibility</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/html">html</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/l10n">l10n</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/screen-readers">screen-readers</a></p>

2010-06-17T19:44:00+00:002010-06-17T19:44:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Jun/17/falsehoods/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/">Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names</a></strong></p> People’s names are complicated. I’m not at all comfortable with the commonly used first name / last name distinction (as baked in to Django auth) since it doesn’t take cultural factors in to account. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/django">django</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/i18n">i18n</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/l10n">l10n</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/recovered">recovered</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/names">names</a></p>

2009-12-05T17:30:33+00:002009-12-05T17:30:33+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Dec/5/language/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/12/04/language-detection-a-witchs-brew/">Language Detection: A Witch&#x27;s Brew?</a></strong></p> The Flickr team make the case for using the Accept-Language header over IP detection to pick a site’s language, with a simple UI for switching languages in case you get it wrong. They’ve been using this for two and a half years without any significant problems. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/flickr">flickr</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/http">http</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/i18n">i18n</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/l10n">l10n</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/languagdetection">languagdetection</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/language">language</a></p>

2008-06-27T09:06:56+00:002008-06-27T09:06:56+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jun/27/facebook/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=21089187130">He/She/They: Grammar and Facebook</a></strong></p> Facebook are going to start requiring gender information because foreign language translations wind up being too confusing when that information is not available. Aside: I wish they’d implement proper title elements on their blog posts. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/facebook">facebook</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gender">gender</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/grammar">grammar</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/i18n">i18n</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/l10n">l10n</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/usability">usability</a></p>

2007-12-08T16:26:53+00:002007-12-08T16:26:53+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Dec/8/james/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://blog.jclark.com/2007/12/thai-personal-names.html">Thai personal names</a></strong></p> “Family names were allocated to families systematically and the use of family names is still controlled by the government. Any two people in Thailand with the same family name are related.” <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/12/07/JJC-on-Thai">Tim Bray</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/i18n">i18n</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/james-clark">james-clark</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/l10n">l10n</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/thailand">thailand</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/tim-bray">tim-bray</a></p>

2007-07-20T12:20:49+00:002007-07-20T12:20:49+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jul/20/aboutcmlenz/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.cmlenz.net/blog/2007/06/announcing_babe.html">Announcing Babel</a></strong></p> Impressive new Python i18n / l10n package, with improved message extraction and a huge amount of bundled locale data. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/babel">babel</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/christopher-lenz">christopher-lenz</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/cldr">cldr</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/i18n">i18n</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/l10n">l10n</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/locale">locale</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/unicode">unicode</a></p>

2006-07-28T08:47:07+00:002006-07-28T08:47:07+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2006/Jul/28/greasemonkey/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://greaseblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/greasemonkey-065-20-support-and.html">Greasemonkey 0.6.5 - 2.0 support and localization</a></strong></p> First release in nearly 8 months. Great to see it’s still ticking over. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/greasemonkey">greasemonkey</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/l10n">l10n</a></p>