to my i18n experts, is there a type out there that I can use in my lexicons? I want to be language friendly, but alas am ignorant!
Common "langs" type?
discourse.atmosphere.communitySep 18, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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a few people found this tool I made a while ago useful in @alex.bsky.team's lexicon workshop yesterday at #atmosphereconf, so resharing here for anyone else who wants to write their lexicons in typescript prototypey.org
When I worked in software dev, I was taught to check three non-English languages when testing text strings: German to test the largest possible version of a string, Japanese or Chinese to test the shortest possible version, and Thai to check the TALLEST possible version.
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