diff --git a/blogthon.cgi b/blogthon.cgi
index 264cd54..a8e05df 100755
--- a/blogthon.cgi
+++ b/blogthon.cgi
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ no_break = re.compile("^\s*(<ul|</ul>|<li|</li>|<ol|</ol>|<table|</table>|<tr|</
 line_start_hyphen = re.compile("^-.*$")
 line_start_plus = re.compile("^\+.*$")
 
-tab = "\t"
+tab = " "
 
 def generate_uuid(string):
     string_md5sum = md5(string).hexdigest()
@@ -56,7 +56,10 @@ def document_header(string):
     if string == "html":
         print "Content-type: text/html\n"
         print "<!DOCTYPE html>"
-        print "<html lang=\"" + language + "\">"
+        try:
+            print "<html lang=\"" + language + "\">"
+        except NameError:
+            print "<html lang=\"en\">"
     if string == "atom":
         print "Content-type: application/atom+xml\n"
         print "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>"
