#Local Ipsum

A Python web-based app that will strip the text content from a HTML page & replace with lorem ipsum text in a given language. Will also increase text length by ~30% (as a crude mesaure of translated languages often increasing in volume; will not work correctly for CJK languages, as no word boundary).

Developed just for fun, has reasonable success though struggles with some JavaScript injected content.

Disclaimer: Text in other languages was collected randomly on the web (aimed for CC sources, though some are from Google search results). As I (unfortunately) don't speak these languages, I'm unaware of the content — it's unlikely to come out as anything other than gibberish, given the way that the content is replaced, but no offense is intended for any meaning gleaned from these if you do speak Norwegian/Korean, etc.

##Potential uses

Allows designers, developers and testers a quick way to view potential impact of localisation being retro-fitted onto a page, especially into non-Latin scripts. For example, it could be used to highlight:

• Text currently served as images
• Right-to-left impact (It will add a right-to-left attribute to the HTML node for Hebrew/Arabic, though won't modify CSS floats, image placements, etc.)
• Overflow caused by longer text content
• Text being injected via JavaScript
• Font-size/colour contrast issues for different scripts

##Getting started

Once downloaded, simply run:

python local-ipsum.py

The application will run on port 8080. Then visit in the browser:

http://localhost:8080/ru/example.com

##Currently supported languages

• Arabic (ar)
• Czech (cs)
• Norwegian (da)
• Greek (el)
• Hindi, (hi)
• Hebrew (iw)
• Japanese (ja)
• Korean (ko)
• Russian (ru)
• Chinese (zh)