First, we added Cyprus (Greek) and Cyprus (English) addresses, without telephone number support. Because the Greek characters are not ASCII, we had to change the encoding of the page to Unicode (which, to be honest, we should have done from the beginning anyway…). This caused (and is still causing) a few problems, but we have most everything working.

Email address generation was temporarily broken due to the change to Unicode, but everything should be working fine again.

vCard support was removed due to lack of use and problems with Unicode. We are looking for a script to produce Unicode-compatible vCard 3.0 files or another convenient downloadable format.

In addition, we FINALLY finished address AND telephone support for Germany. All the area codes should be real area codes, but there are likely quite a few area codes assigned to the wrong city.

That is it for the day!

Added support for Belgium, without telephone support.

Added the England/Wales name set. It contains common given names and surnames used in England and Wales over the past 5 years.

Updated the Hungarian name set to contain many more possible unique names.

Added support for Iceland, with telephone numbers.

Added support for Italy, without telephone numbers.

Added a Hungarian name set to go along with Hungary. We’ll probably work on getting an Italian name set up next (to go with Switzerland).

The United Kingdom has been added, without telephone support.

A few notes:

• The second half of the postal code is randomly generated, although the first half should match up with the city name.
• Streets may or may not be localized properly. The UK contains multiple countries, and it was difficult to separate between them when adding street information.
• Again, no telephone support yet. Hopefully we’ll be able to add this in soon.

Brought back the gender selection option for the bulk orders. It was originally removed due to a PayPal limitation on number of options, but I found a way around the limitation so things should work fine.

I was feeling generous so I added support for browsers that have JavaScript disabled.

First of all, I use Firefox exclusively. And since this started as a hobby project, I’ve never bothered viewing the Fake Name Generator in any browser but Firefox. But today I gave it a look in Internet Explorer and it looked TERRIBLE. Apparantly IE likes to pad forms, so I tweaked the CSS and now it should look pretty much the same in Firefox and IE.

Added a little bar beneath the options to show what name sets are likely to be useful with the currently selected country. For example, you may not know that people in Switzerland speak German, and so you wouldn’t know to select the German name set. But with the bar, you can see what name sets match, and pick the one you want by clicking on it. Neat, eh?

Added the ability to generate Danish names. This is another fairly limited set, with only 36,700 unique possibilities, but at least you now have something to go along with Denmark addresses.