diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index a067404f..65f5319e 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ if you wanna have a go at coding it up yourself then maybe mention the idea on d
 
 aside from documentation and ideas, some other things that would be cool to have some help with is:
 
-* **translations** -- the copyparty web-UI has translations for english and norwegian at the top of [browser.js](https://github.com/9001/copyparty/blob/hovudstraum/copyparty/web/browser.js); if you'd like to add a translation for another language then that'd be welcome! and if that language has a grammar that doesn't fit into the way the strings are assembled, then we'll fix that as we go :>
+* **translations** -- the copyparty web-UI has translations in [copyparty/web/tl](https://github.com/9001/copyparty/tree/hovudstraum/copyparty/web/tl); if you'd like to [add a translation](https://github.com/9001/copyparty/tree/hovudstraum/docs/rice#translations) for another language then that'd be welcome! and if that language has a grammar that doesn't fit into the way the strings are assembled, then we'll fix that as we go :>
 
   * but please note that support for [RTL (Right-to-Left) languages](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-left_script) is currently not planned, since the javascript is a bit too jank for that
 
diff --git a/copyparty/__init__.py b/copyparty/__init__.py
index eba3651e..44ddd3c9 100644
--- a/copyparty/__init__.py
+++ b/copyparty/__init__.py
@@ -100,6 +100,25 @@ web/splash.html
 web/splash.js
 web/svcs.html
 web/svcs.js
+web/tl/chi.js
+web/tl/cze.js
+web/tl/deu.js
+web/tl/epo.js
+web/tl/fin.js
+web/tl/fra.js
+web/tl/grc.js
+web/tl/ita.js
+web/tl/kor.js
+web/tl/nld.js
+web/tl/nno.js
+web/tl/nor.js
+web/tl/pol.js
+web/tl/por.js
+web/tl/rus.js
+web/tl/spa.js
+web/tl/swe.js
+web/tl/tur.js
+web/tl/ukr.js
 web/ui.css
 web/up2k.js
 web/util.js
diff --git a/copyparty/httpcli.py b/copyparty/httpcli.py
index ed5ac993..9020db3a 100644
--- a/copyparty/httpcli.py
+++ b/copyparty/httpcli.py
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ class HttpCli(object):
         tpl = self.conn.hsrv.j2[name]
         ka["r"] = self.args.SR if self.is_vproxied else ""
         ka["ts"] = self.conn.hsrv.cachebuster()
-        ka["lang"] = self.args.lang
+        ka["lang"] = self.cookies.get("cplng") or self.args.lang
         ka["favico"] = self.args.favico
         ka["s_doctitle"] = self.args.doctitle
         ka["tcolor"] = self.vn.flags["tcolor"]
@@ -5077,7 +5077,7 @@ class HttpCli(object):
             "edit": "edit" in self.uparam,
             "title": html_escape(self.vpath, crlf=True),
             "lastmod": int(ts_md * 1000),
-            "lang": self.args.lang,
+            "lang": self.cookies.get("cplng") or self.args.lang,
             "favico": self.args.favico,
             "have_emp": int(self.args.emp),
             "md_no_br": int(vn.flags.get("md_no_br") or 0),
diff --git a/copyparty/web/Makefile b/copyparty/web/Makefile
index 3989e931..99fd53f2 100644
--- a/copyparty/web/Makefile
+++ b/copyparty/web/Makefile
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 # which should help on really slow connections
 # but then why are you using copyparty in the first place
 
-pk: $(addsuffix .gz, $(wildcard *.js *.css))
-un: $(addsuffix .un, $(wildcard *.gz))
+pk: $(addsuffix .gz, $(wildcard tl/*.js *.js *.css))
+un: $(addsuffix .un, $(wildcard tl/*.gz *.gz))
 
 %.gz: %
 	pigz -11 -J 34 -I 573 $<
diff --git a/copyparty/web/browser.html b/copyparty/web/browser.html
index 2201ab58..9470465b 100644
--- a/copyparty/web/browser.html
+++ b/copyparty/web/browser.html
@@ -145,6 +145,9 @@
 		document.documentElement.className = (STG && STG.cpp_thm) || dtheme;
 	</script>
 	<script src="{{ r }}/.cpr/util.js?_={{ ts }}"></script>
+	{%- if lang != "eng" %}
+	<script src="{{ r }}/.cpr/tl/{{ lang }}.js?_={{ ts }}"></script>
+	{%- endif %}
 	<script src="{{ r }}/.cpr/baguettebox.js?_={{ ts }}"></script>
 	<script src="{{ r }}/.cpr/browser.js?_={{ ts }}"></script>
 	<script src="{{ r }}/.cpr/up2k.js?_={{ ts }}"></script>
diff --git a/copyparty/web/browser.js b/copyparty/web/browser.js
index 4ad645c4..74fcdac5 100644
--- a/copyparty/web/browser.js
+++ b/copyparty/web/browser.js
@@ -3,10 +3,8 @@
 var XHR = XMLHttpRequest,
 	img_re = /\.(a?png|avif|bmp|gif|heif|jpe?g|jfif|svg|webp|webm|mkv|mp4|m4v|mov)(\?|$)/i;
 
-// please add translations in alphabetic order, but keep "eng" and "nor" first
-// (lines ending with //m are machine translations)
-var Ls = {
-	"eng": {
+if (1)
+	Ls.eng = {
 		"tt": "English",
 
 		"cols": {
@@ -26,7 +24,7 @@ var Ls = {
 			"resw": "horizontal resolution",
 			"resh": "vertical resolution",
 			"chs": "audio channels",
-			"hz": "sample rate"
+			"hz": "sample rate",
 		},
 
 		"hks": [
@@ -639,18 +637,43 @@ var Ls = {
 		"lang_set": "refresh to make the change take effect?",
 };
 
-var LANGS = ["eng", "nor", "chi", "cze", "deu", "epo", "fin", "fra", "grc", "ita", "kor", "nld", "nno", "pol", "por", "rus", "spa", "swe", "tur", "ukr"];
+var LANGN = [
+	["eng", "English"],
+	["nor", "Norsk"],
+	["chi", "中文"],
+	["cze", "Čeština"],
+	["deu", "Deutsch"],
+	["epo", "Esperanto"],
+	["fin", "Suomi"],
+	["fra", "français"],
+	["grc", "Ελληνικά"],
+	["ita", "Italiano"],
+	["kor", "한국어"],
+	["nld", "Nederlands"],
+	["nno", "Nynorsk"],
+	["pol", "Polski"],
+	["por", "Português"],
+	["rus", "Русский"],
+	["spa", "Español"],
+	["swe", "Svenska"],
+	["tur", "Türkçe"],
+	["ukr", "Українська"],
+];
 
 if (window.langmod)
 	langmod();
 
-for (var a = LANGS.length; a > 0;)
-	if (!Ls[LANGS[--a]])
-		LANGS.splice(a, 1);
+var L = Ls[lang] || Ls.eng, LANGS = [];
+for (var a = 0; a < LANGN.length; a++)
+	LANGS.push(LANGN[a][0]);
 
-var L = Ls[sread("cpp_lang", LANGS) || lang] ||
-			Ls.eng || Ls.nor || Ls.chi;
 
+function langtest() {
+	var n = LANGS.length - 1;
+	for (var a = 1; a < LANGS.length; a++) 
+		import_js(SR + '/.cpr/tl/' + LANGS[a] + '.js', function () { if (!--n) langtest2(); });
+}
+function langtest2() {
 for (var a = 0; a < LANGS.length; a++) {
 	for (var b = a + 1; b < LANGS.length; b++) {
 		var i1 = Object.keys(Ls[LANGS[a]]).length > Object.keys(Ls[LANGS[b]]).length ? a : b,
@@ -665,8 +688,11 @@ for (var a = 0; a < LANGS.length; a++) {
 			}
 	}
 }
+}
 
-if (!has(LANGS, lang))
+
+
+if (!Ls[lang])
 	alert('unsupported --lang "' + lang + '" specified in server args;\nplease use one of these: ' + LANGS);
 
 modal.load();
@@ -6581,9 +6607,7 @@ var treectl = (function () {
 	bcfg_bind(r, 'csel', 'csel', dgsel);
 	bcfg_bind(r, 'dots', 'dotfiles', see_dots, function (v) {
 		r.goto();
-		var xhr = new XHR();
-		xhr.open('GET', SR + '/?setck=dots=' + (v ? 'y' : ''), true);
-		xhr.send();
+		setck('dots=' + (v ? 'y' : ''));
 	});
 	bcfg_bind(r, 'utctid', 'utctid', dutc, function (v) {
 		window.unix2ui = v ? unix2iso : unix2iso_localtime;
@@ -6620,9 +6644,7 @@ var treectl = (function () {
 		if (!v == !/\bidxh=y\b/.exec('' + document.cookie))
 			return;
 
-		var xhr = new XHR();
-		xhr.open('GET', SR + '/?setck=idxh=' + (v ? 'y' : 'n'), true);
-		xhr.send();
+		setck('idxh=' + (v ? 'y' : 'n'));
 	}
 	setidxh(r.idxh);
 
@@ -7368,10 +7390,7 @@ var treectl = (function () {
 		qsr('#bbsw');
 		srvinf = ebi('srv_info').innerHTML.slice(6, -7);
 		if (ls0 === null) {
-			var xhr = new XHR();
-			xhr.open('GET', SR + '/?setck=js=y', true);
-			xhr.send();
-
+			setck('js=y');
 			r.ls_cb = showfile.addlinks;
 			return r.reqls(get_evpath(), false, undefined, true);
 		}
@@ -8164,11 +8183,9 @@ var setfszf = (function () {
 
 (function () {
 	function freshen() {
-		lang = sread("cpp_lang", LANGS) || lang;
-		var k, cb = ebi('langs'), html = [];
-		for (var a = 0; a < LANGS.length; a++) {
-			k = LANGS[a];
-			html.push('<option value="{0}">{0} ┃ {1}</option>'.format(k, Ls[k].tt));
+		var cb = ebi('langs'), html = [];
+		for (var a = 0; a < LANGN.length; a++) {
+			html.push('<option value="{0}">{0} ┃ {1}</option>'.format(LANGN[a][0], LANGN[a][1]));
 		}
 		cb.innerHTML = html.join('');
 		cb.onchange = setlang;
@@ -8177,11 +8194,10 @@ var setfszf = (function () {
 
 	function setlang(e) {
 		ev(e);
-		var t = L.lang_set;
 		lang = ebi('langs').value;
-		L = Ls[lang];
-		swrite("cpp_lang", lang);
+		setck('cplng=' + lang);
 		freshen();
+		var t = L.tt == 'English' ? '' : Ls.eng.lang_set;
 		modal.confirm(L.lang_set + "\n\n" + t, location.reload.bind(location), null);
 	}
 
diff --git a/copyparty/web/splash.html b/copyparty/web/splash.html
index e98d5f63..1dd635d6 100644
--- a/copyparty/web/splash.html
+++ b/copyparty/web/splash.html
@@ -211,6 +211,9 @@ document.documentElement.className = (STG && STG.cpp_thm) || "{{ this.args.theme
 
 </script>
 <script src="{{ r }}/.cpr/util.js?_={{ ts }}"></script>
+{%- if lang != "eng" %}
+<script src="{{ r }}/.cpr/tl/{{ lang }}.js?_={{ ts }}"></script>
+{%- endif %}
 <script src="{{ r }}/.cpr/splash.js?_={{ ts }}"></script>
 {%- if js %}
 <script src="{{ js }}_={{ ts }}"></script>
diff --git a/copyparty/web/splash.js b/copyparty/web/splash.js
index 11bb714b..6185f341 100644
--- a/copyparty/web/splash.js
+++ b/copyparty/web/splash.js
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
-// please add translations in alphabetic order, but keep "nor" and "eng" first
-// (lines ending with //m are machine translations)
-var Ls = {
-	"eng": {
+Ls.eng = {
+	"splash": {
 		"d2": "shows the state of all active threads",
 		"e2": "reload config files (accounts/volumes/volflags),$Nand rescan all e2ds volumes$N$Nnote: any changes to global settings$Nrequire a full restart to take effect",
 		"lo2": "ends the session on all browsers",
@@ -10,14 +8,13 @@ var Ls = {
 		"ta1": "fill in your new password first",
 		"ta2": "repeat to confirm new password:",
 		"ta3": "found a typo; please try again",
-	},
+	}
 };
 
 if (window.langmod)
 	langmod();
 
-var d = Ls[sread("cpp_lang", Object.keys(Ls)) || lang] ||
-			Ls.eng || Ls.nor || Ls.chi;
+var d = (Ls[lang] || Ls.eng).splash;
 
 d.wb = d.w;
 
diff --git a/copyparty/web/util.js b/copyparty/web/util.js
index ee8e5b98..9a97b32a 100644
--- a/copyparty/web/util.js
+++ b/copyparty/web/util.js
@@ -296,6 +296,10 @@ function ignex(all) {
 window.onerror = vis_exh;
 
 
+if (!window.Ls || !window.langmod)
+    var Ls = {};
+
+
 function noop() { }
 
 
@@ -1307,6 +1311,11 @@ function scfg_bind(obj, oname, cname, defval, cb) {
     return v;
 }
 
+function setck(v) {
+    var xhr = new XHR();
+    xhr.open('GET', SR + '/?setck=' + v, true);
+    xhr.send();
+}
 
 window.unix2ui = (function () {
     var v = sread('utctid');
diff --git a/docs/devnotes.md b/docs/devnotes.md
index 50bafc89..140f6bbf 100644
--- a/docs/devnotes.md
+++ b/docs/devnotes.md
@@ -415,6 +415,7 @@ if you are unable to use `build`, you can use the old setuptools approach instea
 ```bash
 python3 setup.py install --user setuptools wheel jinja2
 python3 setup.py build
+python3 setup.py bdist_wheel
 # you now have a wheel which you can install. or extract and repackage:
 python3 setup.py install --skip-build --prefix=/usr --root=$HOME/pe/copyparty
 ```
diff --git a/docs/rice/README.md b/docs/rice/README.md
index 3d3b7cfe..4573a085 100644
--- a/docs/rice/README.md
+++ b/docs/rice/README.md
@@ -69,23 +69,13 @@ there is also `--html-head-s` and volflag `html_head_s` to add a plain static bi
 
 # translations
 
-add your own translations by using the english or norwegian one from `browser.js` as a template
+add your own translations by using [tl.js](https://github.com/9001/copyparty/blob/hovudstraum/scripts/tl.js) as a base, and add a new file in [copyparty/web/tl](https://github.com/9001/copyparty/tree/hovudstraum/copyparty/web/tl) when you're happy with it
 
 > ⚠ Please do not contribute translations to [RTL (Right-to-Left) languages](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-left_script) for now; the javascript is [not ready](https://github.com/9001/copyparty/blob/hovudstraum/docs/rice/rtl.patch) to deal with it
 
-the easy way is to open up and modify `browser.js` in your own installation; depending on how you installed copyparty it might be named `browser.js.gz` instead, in which case just decompress it, restart copyparty, and start editing it anyways
-
 you will be delighted to see inline html in the translation strings; to help prevent syntax errors, there is [a very jank linux script](https://github.com/9001/copyparty/blob/hovudstraum/scripts/tlcheck.sh) which is slightly better than nothing -- just beware the false-positives, so even if it complains it's not necessarily wrong/bad
 
-if you're running `copyparty-sfx.py` then you'll find it at `/tmp/pe-copyparty.1000/copyparty/web` (on linux) or `%TEMP%\pe-copyparty\copyparty\web` (on windows)
-* make sure to keep backups of your work religiously! since that location is volatile af
-
-
-## translations (docker-friendly)
-
-if editing `browser.js` is inconvenient in your setup, for example if you're running in docker, then you can instead do this:
-* if you have python, go to the `scripts` folder and run `./tl.py fra Français` to generate a `tl.js` which is perfect for translating to French, using the three-letter language code `fra`
-  * if you do not have python, you can also just grab `tl.js` from the scripts folder, but I'll probably forget to keep that up to date... and then you'll have to find/replace all `"eng"` and `Ls.eng` to your three-letter language code
+to see your translation taking shape in the copyparty ui as you work on it:
 * put your `tl.js` inside a folder that is being shared by your copyparty, preferably the webroot
 * run copyparty with the argument `--html-head='<script src="/tl.js"></script>'`
   * if you placed `tl.js` in the webroot then you're all good, but if you put it somewhere else then change `/tl.js` accordingly
@@ -97,6 +87,4 @@ if editing `browser.js` is inconvenient in your setup, for example if you're run
 
 you can now edit `tl.js` and press CTRL-SHIFT-R in the browser to see your changes take effect as you go
 
-if you want to contribute your translation back to the project (please do!) then you'll want to...
-* grab all of the text inside your `var tl_cpanel = {` and add it to the translations inside `copyparty/web/splash.js` in the repo
-* and the text inside your `var tl_browser = {` and add that to the translations inside `copyparty/web/browser.js` in the repo
+if you want to contribute your translation back to the project (please do!) then grab most of the text inside your `tl.js` , starting from the line that starts with `Ls.` and put it into a new file inside [the translations folder](https://github.com/9001/copyparty/tree/hovudstraum/copyparty/web/tl)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 54668406..6041a3ce 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -94,6 +94,8 @@ copyparty = [
     "web/*.css",
     "web/*.html",
     "web/*.xml",
+    "web/tl/*.js",
+    "web/tl/*.gz",
     "web/a/*.bat",
     "web/deps/*.gz",
     "web/deps/*.woff*",
diff --git a/scripts/make-sfx.sh b/scripts/make-sfx.sh
index 592b9096..e9aa80fb 100755
--- a/scripts/make-sfx.sh
+++ b/scripts/make-sfx.sh
@@ -481,10 +481,12 @@ rm -f ftp/pyftpdlib/{__main__,prefork}.py
 		langs="eng|$langs"
 		aerr "ERROR: removing english is not supported; will do this instead: $langs"
 	}
-	for f in copyparty/web/{browser.js,splash.js}; do
-		gzip -d "$f.gz" || true
-		iawk '/^\}/{l=0} !l; /^var Ls =/{l=1;next} !l{next} o; /^\t["}]/{o=0} /^\t"'"$langs"'"/{o=1;print}' $f
-	done
+	f=copyparty/web/browser.js
+	gzip -d "$f.gz" || true
+	iawk '/^\]/{s=0} !s; /^var LANGN /{s=1;next} !s{next} /"'"$langs"'"/' $f
+	ls -1 copyparty/web/tl/* >t
+	grep -vE "/($langs)\." <t | xargs -- rm
+	rm t
 }
 
 [ ! $repack ] && {
diff --git a/scripts/sfx.ls b/scripts/sfx.ls
index 796d7d21..3505ee63 100644
--- a/scripts/sfx.ls
+++ b/scripts/sfx.ls
@@ -113,6 +113,26 @@ copyparty/web/splash.html,
 copyparty/web/splash.js,
 copyparty/web/svcs.html,
 copyparty/web/svcs.js,
+copyparty/web/tl,
+copyparty/web/tl/chi.js,
+copyparty/web/tl/cze.js,
+copyparty/web/tl/deu.js,
+copyparty/web/tl/epo.js,
+copyparty/web/tl/fin.js,
+copyparty/web/tl/fra.js,
+copyparty/web/tl/grc.js,
+copyparty/web/tl/ita.js,
+copyparty/web/tl/kor.js,
+copyparty/web/tl/nld.js,
+copyparty/web/tl/nno.js,
+copyparty/web/tl/nor.js,
+copyparty/web/tl/pol.js,
+copyparty/web/tl/por.js,
+copyparty/web/tl/rus.js,
+copyparty/web/tl/spa.js,
+copyparty/web/tl/swe.js,
+copyparty/web/tl/tur.js,
+copyparty/web/tl/ukr.js,
 copyparty/web/ui.css,
 copyparty/web/up2k.js,
 copyparty/web/util.js,
diff --git a/scripts/tl.py b/scripts/tl.py
index df19b710..9e29fc92 100755
--- a/scripts/tl.py
+++ b/scripts/tl.py
@@ -30,53 +30,48 @@ after editing tl.js, reload your webbrowser by pressing ctrl-shift-r
 
 
 def generate_javascript(lang3, native_name, tl_browser):
-    note = "// NOTE: please use tabs for indenting, not spaces :-)"
-    if lang3 == "eng":
-        note += """\n
-// NOTE: since you are using the tl.js straight from the repo, you'll
-//   need to find/replace all "eng" with your own three-letter name"""
+    note1 = ""
+    note2 = ""
+    if lang3 == "hmn":
+        note1 = ";\n// please adjust this (and the \"Ls.hmn\" further down)"
+        note2 = """
+// the three-letter language-code "hmn" and language-name "Hymmnos"
+// is used as an example; please replace these with your language
+//"""
 
     return f""""use strict";
 
-{note}
 
-// the three-letter name of the language you're translating to
+// the three-letter name of the language you're translating to{note1}
 var my_lang = "{lang3}";
 
-// and because we don't know these yet...
-var SR='', wah='';
 
-// this function is automatically called when the page is loaded:
+////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+// please ignore the next 5 lines:
+var Ls={{}}, SR='', wah='';
 function langmod() {{
-
-	// which page is the javascript currently running on?
-	// look for some well-known elements to figure it out:
-
-	if (QS("h1#cc") && QS("a#k")) {{
-		// we are running in the control-panel
-		Ls[my_lang] = tl_cpanel[my_lang];
-	}}
-	else if (ebi("op_cfg")) {{
-		// we are running in the filebrowser
-		Ls[my_lang] = tl_browser[my_lang];
-
-		// inform the settings tab that a new lang is available
-		LANGS.push(my_lang);
-	}}
+	if (window.LANGN)
+		LANGN.push([my_lang, Ls[my_lang].tt]);
 }}
 
 
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+// alright,
 // below this point is where the actual translation happens;
 // here is the pairs of "text-identifier": "text-to-translate"
-
-
-////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
-// translation of splash.js (the control-panel);
+//{note2}
 // you do not need to translate the TLNotes, those are just for you :-)
+//
+// when you are happy with this translation and want to submit it,
+// copy the text below into a new file in the translations folder;
+// https://github.com/9001/copyparty/tree/hovudstraum/copyparty/web/tl
 
-var tl_cpanel = {{
-	"{lang3}": {{
+
+Ls.{lang3} = {{
+	"tt": "{native_name}",
+{tl_browser}
+
+	"splash": {{
 		"a1": "refresh",
 		"b1": "howdy stranger &nbsp; <small>(you're not logged in)</small>",
 		"c1": "logout",
@@ -115,21 +110,9 @@ var tl_cpanel = {{
 		"ac1": "enable no304",
 		"ad1": "enabling no304 will disable all caching; try this if k304 wasn't enough. This will waste a huge amount of network traffic!",
 		"ae1": "active downloads:",
-        "af1": "show recent uploads",
-	}},
+		"af1": "show recent uploads",
+	}}
 }};
-
-
-////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
-// translation of browser.js (the filebrowser):
-
-var tl_browser = {{
-	"{lang3}": {{
-		"tt": "{native_name}",
-
-		{tl_browser}
-}};
-
 """
 
 
@@ -158,7 +141,8 @@ def main():
         browserjs = f.read().decode("utf-8")
 
     _, browserjs = browserjs.split('\n\t\t"tt": "English",\n', 1)
-    browserjs, _ = browserjs.split('\n\t"nor": {', 1)
+    browserjs, _ = browserjs.split('\n}', 1)
+    browserjs = browserjs.replace("\n\t", "\n")
 
     try:
         lang3 = sys.argv[1]
diff --git a/scripts/tlcheck.sh b/scripts/tlcheck.sh
index 736c4bd5..6bd81c09 100755
--- a/scripts/tlcheck.sh
+++ b/scripts/tlcheck.sh
@@ -1,13 +1,15 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 set -e
 
-# usage: ./scripts/tlcheck.sh eng chi copyparty/web/browser.js 
+[ -f "$1" ] && [ -f "$2" ] && [ $# = 2 ] || {
+    echo usage: ./scripts/tlcheck.sh scripts/tl.js copyparty/web/tl/nor.js 
+    exit 1
+}
 
-awk <"$3" -v lang1=\"$1\": -v lang2=\"$2\": '
-    /^\t\}/{fa=0;fb=0}
+cat "$1" "$2" | awk '
+    /^\}/{fa=0;fb=0}
+    /^Ls\./{if(nln++){fb=1}else{fa=1}}
     !/":/{next}
-    $0~lang1{fa=1}
-    $0~lang2{fb=1}
     fa{a[ia++]=$0}
     fb{b[ib++]=$0}
     END{for (i=0;i<ia;i++) printf "%s\n%s\n\n",a[i],b[i]}
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ce5afb47..4fc574c1 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ args = {
         "copyparty.stolen.dnslib",
         "copyparty.stolen.ifaddr",
         "copyparty.web",
+        "copyparty.web.tl",
         "copyparty.web.a",
         "copyparty.web.deps",
     ],