Replace the semantic keys with the English source text, so code reads as the
UI does and English needs no catalog: t('Save keys'), tn(count, one, other)
for plurals, msg() for text stored in data, and bare data-i18n* markup that
translates the element's own English. Other languages are one flat JSON each.
- Simplify src/i18n: drop namespaces, the configurable locale pair
(GEV_DEFAULT_LOCALE / GEV_SECONDARY_LOCALE) and its build defines. Locale
comes from ?lang=, the stored choice, then browser languages.
- Add scripts/i18n.mjs (npm run i18n): extracts every message from t/tn/msg
and markup, and fails on missing, unused, placeholder-mismatched or
wrongly-shaped plural entries. npm test runs it via catalog.test.mjs.
- Add Russian (src/i18n/locales/ru.json, 833 messages), started from the
community catalog in #312 and reviewed against the current English.
- Fix data-i18n placed on parents that would wipe their children (cockpit
LEVEL and local weather cells, first-run EXPLORE MANUALLY tile), and a
doubled degree sign in the TRACK ACQUIRED signal.
- Rewrite docs/TRANSLATORS.md for the new workflow; drop sections the earlier
merge resurrected in docs/CURRENT-STATE.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Add the i18n foundation: src/i18n/locale.js (locale resolution with a
configurable GEV_DEFAULT_LOCALE / GEV_SECONDARY_LOCALE pair, guarded
preference storage, one-shot ?lang= override, <html lang>/<html dir>
metadata) and src/i18n/index.js (catalog registry, t(), Intl formatters,
applyDocumentTranslations, persistLocaleAndReload).
English is the only shipped locale in this PR: the four en catalogs
(shell/cockpit/layers/setup) are the reference and the always-shipped
fallback, the built-in pair degenerates to en-only, and English output
is byte-identical to the strings these replace.
Parity gates land with the core (catalog key/placeholder/plural-shape
parity, markup coverage of every data-i18n* attribute, repair-pass
anchors pinning en byte-identity); additional locales ship as stacked
follow-up PRs through the recipe in docs/TRANSLATORS.md.
Rebased onto current main: the client defines live in build/vite.js /
server/standalone/vite.config.js as before.
