diff --git a/checkin_notes b/checkin_notes
index a14e2788ec..96a7d7b1f1 100644
--- a/checkin_notes
+++ b/checkin_notes
@@ -7621,3 +7621,20 @@ Rom    22 Sep 2008
     /
         configure.ac
         version.h
+
+David  22 Sept 2008
+    - web: sub_sentence() went into an infinite loop
+        for a particular (non-ASCII) profile text.
+        Not sure why, but I rewrote sub_sentence() in
+        less obscure way and it works now
+    - web: slight cleanup of translation code.
+        Can we please replace this with gettext()??
+
+    html/
+        inc/
+            translation.inc
+            util.inc
+        ops/
+            update_profile_pages.php
+        user/
+            language_select.php
diff --git a/html/inc/translation.inc b/html/inc/translation.inc
index e2086895d4..03f693fa43 100644
--- a/html/inc/translation.inc
+++ b/html/inc/translation.inc
@@ -31,12 +31,10 @@ $lang_log_file = $lang_language_dir."translator.log";
 function getSupportedLanguages(){
     global $lang_language_dir, $lang_compiled_dir;
     if (is_dir($lang_language_dir.$lang_compiled_dir)) {
-        if ($dh = opendir($lang_language_dir.$lang_compiled_dir)) {                        //If dir exists
-            while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
-                //read contents
-                if (substr($file,-7)!=".po.inc") continue;
+        if ($dh = opendir($lang_language_dir.$lang_compiled_dir)) {
+            while ($file = readdir($dh)) {
+                if (substr($file, -7) != ".po.inc") continue;
                 if (is_numeric(substr($file, 0, 5))) continue;
-
                 $list[] = substr($file,0,-7);
             }
         }
@@ -50,10 +48,9 @@ function getSupportedLanguages(){
 function trSpecific($token, $language=""){
     global $lang_language_dir, $lang_compiled_dir;
     $language= substr($language,0,5);
-    if ($language!="" && file_exists($lang_language_dir.$lang_compiled_dir.$language.".po.inc")){
-        //If we have the language, include it
-        //echo "[$language]";
-        require($lang_language_dir.$lang_compiled_dir.$language.".po.inc");
+    $fname = $lang_language_dir.$lang_compiled_dir.$language.".po.inc";
+    if ($language!="" && file_exists($fname)){
+        require($fname);
         if (array_key_exists($token, $language_lookup_array)) {
             return $language_lookup_array[$token];
         }
diff --git a/html/inc/util.inc b/html/inc/util.inc
index f2d679138b..ce553e7e3a 100644
--- a/html/inc/util.inc
+++ b/html/inc/util.inc
@@ -433,21 +433,23 @@ function get_legal_filename($name) {
 function sub_sentence($sentence, $delimiter, $max_chars, $ellipsis=false) {
     $words = explode($delimiter, $sentence);
     $total_chars = 0;
-    $count = 0;
-    $result = '';
+    $trunc = false;
+    $result = null;
 
-    do {
-        if ($count > 0) {
-            $result = $result . ' ' . $words[$count];
-        } else {
-            $result = $result . $words[$count];
+    foreach ($words as $word) {
+        if (strlen($result) + strlen($word) > $max_chars) {
+            $trunc = true;
+            break;
         }
-        $total_chars += strlen($words[$count]) + 1;
-        $count++;
-    } while ($count < count($words) && ($total_chars + strlen($words[$count])) <= $max_chars);
+        if ($result) {
+            $result .= " $word";
+        } else {
+            $result = $word;
+        }
+    }
 
-    if ($ellipsis && ($count < count($words))) {
-        $result = $result . '...';
+    if ($ellipsis && $trunc) {
+        $result .= "...";
     }
 
     return $result;
diff --git a/html/ops/update_profile_pages.php b/html/ops/update_profile_pages.php
index 74b5e38871..7d140d0eaa 100755
--- a/html/ops/update_profile_pages.php
+++ b/html/ops/update_profile_pages.php
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ require_once("../inc/uotd.inc");
 require_once("../inc/db.inc");
 require_once("../inc/profile.inc");
 
-echo date(DATE_RFC822), ": Starting\n";
+// this causes "cannot modify header" errors
+//echo date(DATE_RFC822), ": Starting\n";
 
 set_time_limit(0);
 ini_set("memory_limit", "1024M");
diff --git a/html/user/language_select.php b/html/user/language_select.php
index 1ae8870ec8..91a8b4a6d3 100644
--- a/html/user/language_select.php
+++ b/html/user/language_select.php
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ row2("Language symbol", "Language name (click to select)");
 row2("",
     "<a href=language_select.php?set_lang=auto>Use browser language setting</a>"
 );
-for ($i=0; $i<sizeof($languages);$i++){
+for ($i=0; $i<sizeof($languages); $i++){
     $lang_native[$i] = trSpecific(LANG_NAME_NATIVE, $languages[$i]);
     $lang_international[$i] = trSpecific(LANG_NAME_INTERNATIONAL, $languages[$i]);
 }
@@ -71,12 +71,6 @@ for ($i=0; $i<sizeof($languages);$i++){
 array_multisort($lang_international, $languages, $lang_native);
 
 for ($i=0; $i<sizeof($languages);$i++){
-//    if (file_exists($imgdir.$languages[$i].".png")){
-//        $im = "<a href=\"language_select.php?set_lang=".$languages[$i]."\"><img src=\"".$imgdir.$languages[$i].".png\" border=0></a>";
-//    } else {
-//        $im="";
-//    }
-//    row3($im,
     row2(
         "<a href=\"language_select.php?set_lang=".$languages[$i]."\">".$languages[$i]."</a>",
         "<a href=\"language_select.php?set_lang=".$languages[$i]."\">".$lang_international[$i]."</a>"