diff --git a/scripts/copy-res.js b/scripts/copy-res.js
index 0d67599f..460b2b51 100755
--- a/scripts/copy-res.js
+++ b/scripts/copy-res.js
@@ -9,17 +9,16 @@
 // This could readily be automated, but it's nice to explicitly
 // control when we languages are available.
 const INCLUDE_LANGS = [
-    //'be' Omitted because no translations in react-sdk
-    'en_EN',
-    'da',
-    'de_DE',
-    'es',
-    'fr',
-    'be',
-    'nl',
-    'pt',
-    'pt_BR',
-    'ru',
+    {'value': 'en_EN', 'label': 'English'},
+    {'value': 'da', 'label': 'Dansk'},
+    {'value': 'nl', 'label': 'Nederlands'},
+    {'value': 'de_DE', 'label': 'Deutsch'},
+    {'value': 'fr', 'label': 'Français'},
+    {'value': 'pt', 'label': 'Português'},
+    {'value': 'pt_BR', 'label': 'Português do Brasil'},
+    {'value': 'ru', 'label': 'Русский'},
+    {'value': 'es', 'label': 'Español'},
+    {'value': 'zh_Hans', 'label': '中文'}
 ];
 
 // cpx includes globbed parts of the filename in the destination, but excludes
@@ -37,7 +36,7 @@ const COPY_LIST = [
 
 INCLUDE_LANGS.forEach(function(l) {
     COPY_LIST.push([
-        l, "webapp/i18n/", { lang: 1 },
+        l.value, "webapp/i18n/", { lang: 1 },
     ]);
 });
 
@@ -159,12 +158,12 @@ function genLangFile(lang, dest) {
 function genLangList() {
     const languages = {};
     INCLUDE_LANGS.forEach(function(lang) {
-        const normalizedLanguage = lang.toLowerCase().replace("_", "-");
+        const normalizedLanguage = lang.value.toLowerCase().replace("_", "-");
         const languageParts = normalizedLanguage.split('-');
         if (languageParts.length == 2 && languageParts[0] == languageParts[1]) {
-            languages[languageParts[0]] = lang + '.json';
+            languages[languageParts[0]] = {'fileName': lang.value + '.json', 'label': lang.label};
         } else {
-            languages[normalizedLanguage] = lang + '.json';
+            languages[normalizedLanguage] = {'fileName': lang.value + '.json', 'label': lang.label};
         }
     });
     fs.writeFile('webapp/i18n/languages.json', JSON.stringify(languages, null, 4));
diff --git a/webpack.config.js b/webpack.config.js
index efeab7fe..5d4fef72 100644
--- a/webpack.config.js
+++ b/webpack.config.js
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ module.exports = {
 
         // We ship olm.js as a separate lump of javascript. This makes it get
         // loaded via a separate <script/> tag in index.html (which loads it
-        // into the browser global `Olm`), and define it as an external below.
+        // into the browser global `Olm`, where js-sdk expects to find it).
         //
         // (we should probably make js-sdk load it asynchronously at some
         // point, so that it doesn't block the pageload, but that is a separate
@@ -99,7 +99,6 @@ module.exports = {
         },
     },
     externals: {
-        "olm": "Olm",
         // Don't try to bundle electron: leave it as a commonjs dependency
         // (the 'commonjs' here means it will output a 'require')
         "electron": "commonjs electron",