2026-06-24 Language tagging in blog posts
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> It's 35°C outside … and inside, too! Topless computing is the name
> of the game, I'm sorry to say.

Here's what I wanted to do: The posts on this blog are being posted to
fedi via @blog@social.alexschroeder.ch. This is cool. But I noticed
that they aren't posted with a particular language.

Hm, I thought. This must be a problem of rss-bot. And it is, it
doesn't know about language tags.

But then I checked my feed, and noticed that it also doesn't have the
language tags. The blog runs on Oddμ. I figured it this should be
easy to fix. I'll just add the xml:lang attribute to the template for
the RSS feed. The software already knows the language used on the blog
post and the view template uses it. The HTML pages are tagged
appropriately! This is important for hyphenation and screen readers.

Sadly, adding the attribute to the feed template didn't fix it,
because the code that produces the feed took a shortcut: It loaded
each page that would appear in the feed and copied the attributes it
needed from the Page structure into the Item structure. And at the
time I didn't need the Body attribute. But the Language code
operates on the plainText result which uses the Body. Oh no!

And so now I'm starting back there, working my way through the layers
of the problem.

#Oddμ #RSS