Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #internationalisation, aggregated by home.social.
My #Readerware replacement is coming along nicely. It's not limited to just books, audio and video media like Readerware was, nor is it one app per media type, you can use it to catalogue any kind of object. Books, stamps, whiskies, hats, planets, ... anything. Everything is configurable. It's called #Thingibase because it's for tracking collections of arbitrary thingies.
There's still lots of work to do, and no, patches are not welcome. Yet.
One more time with some additional links:
Xfce is pleased to announce a new Matrix channel to support translators, communication between language teams, and the onboarding of new translators.
https://matrix.to/#/#xfce-translation:matrix.org
If you haven't previously signed in to a Matrix channel, the Matrix landing
page will helpfully provide you with a list of suggested clients to use if
you don't already have one installed.
We've also updated a some our translation resources:
- https://wiki.xfce.org/translations/ (Main Xfce translation resource page)
- https://wiki.xfce.org/translations/teams/ (list of Transifex language teams and wiki.xfce.org team pages)
We strongly encourage the use of our #xfce-translation Matrix channel as the
primary means of communicating with the Xfce team and other translators.
If you are interested in volunteering to help translate Xfce, please take a
look at https://docs.xfce.org/contribute/translate/start for instructions on
how to get started working with Transifex and our team.
We are always looking for new contributors to help us improve Xfce.
We look forward to seeing you on the #xfce-translation channel!
#Xfce #i18n #Internationalisation #Translation #localisation #Transifex #Documentation
Italians, in a business context, what would be a sentence that looks like perfectly normal Italian sentence but is actually an insult?
#languages #linguistic #i18n #l10n #G11n #internationalisation #internationalization #localisation #localization #globalization #globalisation #FollowerPower
#TIL and it's pretty cool but kind of useless if people don't allow #JavaScript in their client.
The Google's Advanced Protection https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/
page starts its description with the phrase "Gmail blocks over 10 crore phishing attempts every day.".
Yes, it is a perfectly chosen wording for a globally targeted text to use Indian-adjusted numerical term.
Mein neues Debian schreibt nach
% man sed
Zeug raus wie:
BEZEICHNUNG
Sed - Stromeditor zum Filtern und Umwandeln von Text
Find ich gut, dass jeder das in seiner Sprache haben kann. Aber wenn man seit 40 Jahren mit dem englischen Kram zurecht kommt, liest sich das einfach nur komisch.
Und nu bin ich mal weg um rauszufinden, wie ich die englischen manpages zurück bekomme. 🧐
Viel Spaß mit dem Stromeditor beim unterdrücken des Musterbereichs.😉
🚀️ Pontoon Debian v2026.03.20 released
I just released a new version of Pontoon Debian, a manual to install and maintain Pontoon (#Mozilla web-based translation software) on #Debian and #Ubuntu.
➡️ https://wanadev.github.io/pontoon-debian/migration/pontoon-v2026.03.20.html
Please note that this may be one of the last updates for this project. If you are using it, please let me know and consider contributing. 🙂️
L’année dernière, @MoritzBrouhaha nous a raconté l’histoire du standard informatique Unicode, utilisé par tout le monde à travers le globe dans nos communications quotidiennes. Visionnez ou revisionnez sa conférence en ligne.
https://www.paris-web.fr/2025/conference/a-la-decouverte-du-monde-au-travers-de-lunicode
Dear Americans, in french we put a space before double punctuation. So please stop showing me an emoji panel each time I type " :".
It adds a random emoji and I have to type escape each time.
Une initiative qui vise à améliorer la gestion de la traduction d'applications.
Il s'agit d'un écosystème d'outils et de plugins réunis autour d'un nouveau format de fichier ouvert.
La promesse est assez séduisante, à tester.
Avec @MoritzBrouhaha découvrez l'histoire du standard informatique Unicode, utilisé par tout le monde à travers le globe dans nos communications quotidiennes.
https://www.paris-web.fr/2025/conference/a-la-decouverte-du-monde-au-travers-de-lunicode
L'API JavaScript `Intl.Segmenter` peut être utilisée pour compter le nombre de caractères visibles dans une chaîne de caractères, et non pas le nombre de caractères unicode comme ce que fait `String.length`.
🔗 https://blog.sangeeth.dev/posts/accurate-text-lengths-with-intl-segmenter-api/
À la découverte des possibilités offertes par `Intl`, le module natif d'internationalisation de JavaScript.
🔗 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/08/power-intl-api-guide-browser-native-internationalization/
Avec @MoritzBrouhaha, découvrez l'histoire du standard informatique Unicode, utilisé par tout le monde à travers le globe dans nos communications quotidiennes.
https://www.paris-web.fr/2025/conference/a-la-decouverte-du-monde-au-travers-de-lunicode
Hello fediverse!
I guess a short #introduction is due: I am an architect and academic trying to avoid other social media and eager to see the fediverse grow. I wish all universities would have their own instances but they don't (yet), so thanks a lot to the @FediverseFoundation for hosting me.
I teach #architecture , #construction and #BuildingMaterials but I am also engaged in #UniversityManagement and #internationalisation .
I will probably post about all this and many other random topics in both English and German, sometimes Spanish, eventually Italian. You can filter languages in your preferences in case you don't want a Babel in your timeline.
Give me some time to get started and see you out there in the 'verse!
[screenreader users, the following contains a lot of non-alphabet characters]
Fix/Workaround for me - still interested in info:
SendEnv LANG LC_* in my *local* .ssh/config
ls output is now 'Árstíðir - Hvel' etc etc
Update:
I am going to point towards #tmux and #WindowsTerminal here too, I can paste "Árstíðir - Hvel - 12 Unfold.flac" but touching a file with UTF-8 characters causes the same issues.
#PuTTY displays it correctly! The only difference I can see is that LANG="en_AU.UTF-8" is exported.
#Linux friends, what do I do with a filename like "''$'\303\201''rst'$'\303\255\303\260''ir - Hvel - 12 Unfold.flac'"? (https://arstidirsom.bandcamp.com/album/hvel if you're wondering)
The correct, or original filename from the zip file is "Árstíðir - Hvel - 12 Unfold.flac"
If I set LANG to something with UTF-8, I get _rst__ir - Hvel - 12 Unfold.flac, but ls *12\ Unfold.flac does not find it.
What's the equivalent of hexdump for filenames? This particular example is on ZFS but I have seen the same on ext4 and btrfs so I am sure it's not (entirely) filesystem specific.
If you search for this answer, what keywords did you use? I am having trouble here.
😍 All WAI Translations
This page lists translations of current accessibility standards and other resources from the Web Accessibility Initiative
En ce moment je m'occupe de l'#internationalisation des textes d'une #codebase américaine. C'est passionnant de voir toutes les constructions hyper langue-centrées quand une #app n'est pas du tout pensée pour la trad dès la conception.
Exemple spécial US: ils utilis(ai)ent la librairie #inflection pour pluraliser des noms de ressources dynamiques dans l'UI. Le·a dev qui a fait ça s'est sans doute senti très malin sur le moment, sauf que non.
2024 #Achievement
Since 2023, I was granted after a positive/successful #evaluation #assessment the #EstablishedResearcher #R3 #Certificate by the #NationalInnovationAgency #AgenciaEstatalDeInvestigación following and according to the #European Framework for Research Careers
https://aei.gob.es/sites/default/files/convocatory_info/file/2023-11/PR_II_CR32023_firmado.pdf
#Academia #Research #Science #Excellence #Impact #Internationalisation #Transparency #Accountability @geography @economics @anthropology @politicalscience @politicaltheory
2024 #Achievement
#FullProfessor #ResearchProfessor #accreditations separately in both domains #SocialSciences and #Humanities by Agency for Quality of the #Basque #University System
#Academia #Research #Lectureship #Science #Excellence #Impact #Transfer #Internationalisation
@geography @politicaltheory @politicalscience @economics @anthropology
Grateful for being among those being pre-selected by achieving to reach out the final selection list by the #Spanish #Government for #ScientificAdvisors at the #Scientific #Advisory #National #Office #ONAC
https://onac.gob.es/novedades/noticias/Paginas/el-gobierno-incorpora-22-asesores-cient-ficos-para.aspx #Merits #Science4Policy #Internationalisation
Delighted to have visited the @SGHWarsaw today! 🌍
✅ #PhDTraining standards
✅ #BestPractices and benchmarks
✅ #JointResearch opportunities
✅ Future #Publication plans
#AcademicCollaboration #Internationalisation #PhD #Research #Impact #Policy #Transfer #ActionResearch
#Lectureship room #SGH @SGHWarsaw continuing morning seminar on #Polanyi #AI #Dataopolies #Markets #Society now lecturing #PublicPolicy citing @AaronBastani @MazzucatoM @subirats9 et al #Universities #Internationalisation #Impact #Sharing
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) invites you to review the draft French translation of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2:
🇫🇷 Règles pour l’accessibilité des contenus Web (WCAG) 2.2
So apparently server administrators on the #Fediverse won’t be able to name custom emoji in their native languages and expect them to work in Mastodon, because according to @Gargron non-ASCII signs are hard to input and diacritics shouldn’t change the meaning of words:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/28572#issuecomment-1878952504
No, in my view emoji identifiers shouldn’t be ‘straightforward to input for everyone’. Custom emoji are local to a server; they should be straightforward to input for the users of that server. People from other servers don’t ever have to type their names (unless their administrators choose to add them to their own server), so their ability to type them is completely irrelevant.
Why should a server made specifically for people speaking Russian or Japanese have to use ASCII for their emoji identifiers? Their users have no trouble typing Cyrillic or Kanji signs; it’s what they already do when they make a post; it’s how they normally talk. Why force them to use a different language/alphabet when typing emoji identifiers?
Moreover, linking the username issue makes no sense whatsoever. Usernames are typed across servers and it makes sense to impose stricter technical limitations so more people can read, write and recognise them. This is not the case for emoji; you rarely ever need to type other servers’ emoji identifiers. Normally you don’t even get to see them; you only get to see the picture they represent! Assuming server admins do their job responsibly, there is zero added confusion for anyone involved.
I understand that Unicode is complex, language support is challenging and compromises might be necessary at times. But can we please accept the existence of different languages and writing systems as a reality that we should try to accommodate for, rather than change or circumvent? Yes, a and á are different signs. Yes, they might radically change the meaning of a word. That’s not a proposition for us to accept or reject; that’s the reality of our multilingual world, and should be the basis of our discussion.
#lang_en #accessibility #a11y #custom_emoji #development #emoji #emojos #free_software #internationalisation #internationalization #i18n #languages #localisation #localization #l10n #Mastodon #multilingual #programming #software #Unicode