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CountMyDays3d ago · 6 min read

"Tomorrow" or "in 2 days"? A timezone-safe 'time until' label with Intl.RelativeTimeFormat

Every countdown UI needs a short, friendly label: in 45 minutes, tomorrow, in 3 weeks, za 5 miesięcy. Modern JavaScript has a built-in for the wording, Intl.RelativeTimeFormat, so you no longer need a

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Pokémon World Team3d ago · 10 min read

One browser MMO, seven languages: RTL, CJK fonts behind the Great Firewall, and translation overlays

We are a small team running a free, fan-made 3D Pokémon MMO that plays in the browser on PC and phone (three.js on the client, PHP and MySQL on the server). It exists as seven language editions: Engli

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LoveCalcs3d ago · 7 min read

The hreflang bug that made every page on our 11-language site point at the homepage

LoveCalcs serves every page in 11 languages. For a while, every one of those pages quietly told search engines that its language alternates were the homepage. Here is what went wrong, the small helper

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Tsugite Labs4d ago · 16 min read

Japanese holidays and business days in JavaScript, no holiday API

Add one business day to Friday, 18 September 2026 for a customer in Japan and the answer is Thursday, 24 September. Monday the 21st is Respect for the Aged Day, Wednesday the 23rd is Autumnal Equinox

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Tsugite Labs5d ago · 17 min read

Japanese text in JavaScript: what normalize('NFKC') fixes, what it breaks, and how to format era dates

A Japanese user types ＡＢＣ１２３ into your search box. Your database has a record called ABC123, but the search finds nothing. Their bug report says "ABC123 finds nothing", because to them the two strings

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Li YiOct 22 · 4 min read

Word counting in JavaScript: why text.split(' ') fails on Chinese, contractions, and extra spaces

Almost every "word counter" tool you find online does the same thing: split on spaces, count the pieces. That works for English — until it doesn't. Try it on a sentence with an apostrophe: "don't worr

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Jaafar AbazidOct 19 · 14 min read

How many characters your language gets in a WordPress URL

When The 200-byte trap went up, a reader on CoderLegion asked the question I should have answered in the article itself: is this only an Arabic problem? It isn't. But "it isn't" is not much of an answ

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SIGNUM HQOct 18 · 4 min read

Translating economic-calendar event names without collisions (MoM vs level, ex-autos, U-6)

Our app has an economic calendar (CPI, jobless claims, retail sales and so on) that we translate into Korean and Japanese. One day I noticed that two different releases on the same day had the same Ko

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DemoVexaOct 17 · 7 min read

How Do You Make One Product Demo in Many Languages?

Translating a demo video is more than swapping the voiceover. Here's what has to change, what should stay the same, and how to plan for it before you make the first version. Once a product demo works

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SpinHireOct 15 · 9 min read

Translating HTML after it renders: one template, eleven languages

Our site started in one language. The templates were written in Russian, the strings lived inline, and nobody had wrapped a single one in a _() call. Then we needed English. A few months later we need

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