Simon Willison’s Weblog

Using the HTML lang attribute (via) TIL the HTML lang attribute is used by screen readers to understand how to provide the correct accent and pronunciation.

# 18th April 2019, 9:09 pm / screenreaders, html, accessibility, localisation

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names. 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.

# 17th June 2010, 7:44 pm / django, i18n, internationalisation, l10n, localisation, names, recovered

Announcing Babel. Impressive new Python i18n / l10n package, with improved message extraction and a huge amount of bundled locale data.

# 20th July 2007, 12:20 pm / babel, christopher-lenz, python, i18n, internationalisation, l10n, localisation, locale, unicode, cldr

Greasemonkey 0.6.5—2.0 support and localization. First release in nearly 8 months. Great to see it’s still ticking over.

# 28th July 2006, 8:47 am / localisation, greasemonkey