Route every application-owned presentation string through the i18n
core: t() call sites across the app/layers/ui/data/voice surfaces,
data-i18n* attributes in the src/ui/templates/*.html markup (applied at
boot by applyDocumentTranslations from src/standalone/application.js),
and the dock locale selector (runtime-rendered from the offered pair —
a single EN button while only English ships).
Rebased onto current main, where the extraction follows the module
splits: the shell wiring now lands in the owner modules
(panelChrome, visualSettings, locationNavigation, shareRestoration,
shellFeedback, applicationShell) and the voice status corpus in the
realtime* modules; scene status lives in director.js +
playbackAdapter.js.
Modules shared with the node runtime (loadingFeedback,
installationFeedback, regionalModel, keySetupCore, vessels ingestion)
stay environment-neutral English and localize at their browser render
sites (chip maps in shellFeedback/installations controls, the weather
table in cockpitBriefing, keySetupRequirementEnvVars compositions), so
the package-boundary graph stays clean; the browser boundary groups
now own the i18n modules they reach (scripts/package-boundaries.json).
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.
Meir Michanie