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  1. The Google's Advanced Protection landing.google.com/advancedpro
    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.

    #Accessibility #Internationalisation #UX #copyright

  2. The Google's Advanced Protection landing.google.com/advancedpro
    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.

    #Accessibility #Internationalisation #UX #copyright

  3. 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.😉

    #linux #debian #i18n #internationalisation

  4. 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.😉

    #linux #debian #i18n #internationalisation

  5. 🚀️ 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.

    ➡️ wanadev.github.io/pontoon-debi

    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. 🙂️

    #internationalisation #i18n #python #django

  6. 🚀️ 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.

    ➡️ wanadev.github.io/pontoon-debi

    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. 🙂️

    #internationalisation #i18n #python #django

  7. 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.

    paris-web.fr/2025/conference/a

    #unicode #standards #typographie #internationalisation

  8. 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.

    paris-web.fr/2025/conference/a

    #unicode #standards #typographie #internationalisation

  9. 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.

    #i18n #internationalisation

  10. 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.

    #i18n #internationalisation

  11. 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.

    🔗 inlang.com/

    #traduction #JavaScript #internationalisation

  12. 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.

    🔗 inlang.com/

    #traduction #JavaScript #internationalisation

  13. 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`.

    🔗 blog.sangeeth.dev/posts/accura

    #JavaScript #unicode #utf8 #internationalisation

  14. 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!

  15. 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!

  16. [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'"? (arstidirsom.bandcamp.com/album 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.

    #AskFedi #Internationalisation

  17. [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'"? (arstidirsom.bandcamp.com/album 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.

    #AskFedi #Internationalisation

  18. 😍 All WAI Translations

    This page lists translations of current accessibility standards and other resources from the Web Accessibility Initiative

    #a11y #WebStandards #Internationalisation

    w3.org/WAI/translations/

  19. 😍 All WAI Translations

    This page lists translations of current accessibility standards and other resources from the Web Accessibility Initiative

    #a11y #WebStandards #Internationalisation

    w3.org/WAI/translations/

  20. 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.

    #web #intl

  21. Are you an #EUeic innovator looking to expand into the USA or Asian markets? 🌎

    This online session will help you get to know the #internationalisation and #commercialisation offers on the EIC Service Catalogue.

    Learn more and join us on 28 January 👉 tinyurl.com/32c6mrsa
    ---
    nitter.privacydev.net/EUeic/st

  22. 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

    wcag.access42.net/22/

    #WCAG #WebStandards #accessibility #internationalisation

  23. 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

    wcag.access42.net/22/

    #WCAG #WebStandards #accessibility #internationalisation

  24. @joelanman - The mentions I've seen in discussions relating to #Internationalisation (#i18n) and #Localisation (#l10n) seem more focused on support for language, RtL typography, etc. over the culture¹ and tradition² of Design that has already been impacted by regions more dominant and more promoted as standard bearers of Design.

    How much of US/EU design thinking and theory might be imposed on any global design system and how can this inherent bias be mitigated. 🤔

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. Looking at the per-language statistics of @AntennaPod from Google's Play console, in preparation of tomorrow's #CommunityCall. Didn't know there was a version of #Spanish for the geographical area 'Latin America'.

    #internationalisation #i18n #localisation #l10n #LatinAmerica

  28. Looking at the per-language statistics of @AntennaPod from Google's Play console, in preparation of tomorrow's #CommunityCall. Didn't know there was a version of #Spanish for the geographical area 'Latin America'.

    #internationalisation #i18n #localisation #l10n #LatinAmerica

  29. 👀 Does WCAG apply only to English (or the like), or does it aim to cover all languages?

    “Will this issue be addressed before WCAG 2.2 becomes a REC?”

    #WCAG #i18n #accessibility #internationalisation

    github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/268

  30. 👀 Does WCAG apply only to English (or the like), or does it aim to cover all languages?

    “Will this issue be addressed before WCAG 2.2 becomes a REC?”

    #WCAG #i18n #accessibility #internationalisation

    github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/268

  31. In May we held a US memorial service for my mother, who died earlier this year. Multiple speakers remembered Amerikannada, and specifically plaintively wished my parents could have used the tools available now, the tools that make indie publishing, in Kannada, so much more feasible without staggering work.

    So here's a shout-out to toolmakers, especially the #localization and #internationalisation #i18n #l10n folks who provide that capability to my parents' intellectual heirs. Thank you.

  32. @simondlr Argh! I wish programmers did not pretend that they know about names — it's a source of frustration, to be sure

    "Falsehoods programmers believe about names"
    kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/false

    #Localisation #Internationalisation #Unicode #CognitiveBias