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3f4b33cb51 |
Finish extraction: 100%, and a coverage number worth believing
The 143 the codemod refused turned out to be two different things, and only
one of them needed a person.
A third were phrases sitting next to an icon -- `<Plus /> New rule`. The
refusal rule was "has siblings", which is broader than the danger: what breaks
a translation is a sibling that renders *text*, splitting a sentence into
fragments no one can reorder. An element beside a phrase does not. Narrowing
the rule to text-producing siblings let the codemod take 73 more.
The rest were real sentences with values in the middle, rebuilt by hand as
named placeholders -- "Your active script “{name}” was written by hand",
"Waiting on the server — goes out {when}." Named rather than positional
because a translator moves the parts around; counted things go through
plural() so Russian and Ukrainian get their three forms rather than English's
two.
Sentences with an element inside them needed something new. `Open <code>mailto:
</code> links in ihasmail` has two obvious treatments and both are wrong:
splitting it into two t() calls hands over fragments that cannot be reordered,
and dropping the <code> keeps the sentence whole but loses the monospace that
said "this is a literal". tNode() keeps the sentence whole and makes the
element a named hole in it, so a translator sees one sentence and can put the
hole where their language wants it. The German test asserts exactly that: the
same call renders the code first when the catalogue says so.
The coverage number was also lying, and it is worth saying how. It counted
text inside <code> and inside translate="no" as untranslated work, and
placeholders like "123456" and "+1 555 0100" -- a one-time code and a phone
format. None of those will ever be translated, so the report sat at 21 with 6
real items left. A number with an unreachable floor is something to argue with
rather than act on, so the tool now applies the same rules the codemod does.
596 wrapped, nothing remaining. Verified in the browser across 15 views, which
is where the last bulk pass hid a bug the tests could not see: no entities, no
unfilled placeholders, no raw t( in rendered text, and the toggle switches that
looked like emptied labels are text-free by design.
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Start extraction: an i18n core, and a way to see how far it has got
The groundwork in #145 gave the app a language to serve. This gives it something to serve, and a way to measure the distance to the languages actually planned. The English text is the key. `t("Archive")` looks "Archive" up and returns the English when it is not there, which buys three things worth more than tidy symbolic keys: no English catalogue to keep in step with the code, a missing translation that degrades to readable English rather than to `mail.list.archive`, and an extraction step that is wrapping a string rather than inventing a name for it. Names are where extraction stalls, and 55 components is a lot of small naming arguments. The cost is that editing English copy orphans its translations, which is the right way round: the copy is the product, and a stale German sentence should fall back to the new English. `plural()` takes forms rather than (one, other), because two forms is an English assumption that does not survive phase two of the plan. Russian and Ukrainian need three, and choosing between them is not a question about the number 1. Intl.PluralRules knows the rule for every language the browser knows, so the catalogue supplies the forms and the runtime picks; a category the catalogue does not carry falls back to `other` rather than rendering undefined. Interpolation is named rather than positional for the same reason -- German moves the parts of a sentence around and means the same thing. Catalogues are dynamically imported, so a reader who never leaves English never downloads one, and English needs no fetch at all. `applyLang` sets the lang attribute before kicking the load, deliberately: lang is what stops Chrome offering to translate and should not wait on a network request to say something it already knows. `t()` is a plain function, not a hook, so the tree is keyed on a language version at the root and thrown away when the catalogue changes. Making every call site a subscriber would turn extracting a string from "wrap it" into "wrap it and add a hook", for an event that happens about once per account. NotificationsSettings is extracted end to end as the reference -- it covers all four shapes, being JSX text, translated attributes, a toast, and a sentence with a value interpolated into it. scripts/i18n-coverage.mjs counts what is left, because ~1,000 strings across 56 files is too many to eyeball in review or carry in anyone's head. It reports 20 wrapped and 925 remaining, and it deliberately does not count punctuation and separators as untranslated -- a floor no amount of work could reach would make the number useless. A progress report rather than a gate: --check exits non-zero, for once the number is low enough for that to mean something. ROADMAP.md said translations were "English-only for now" on a page whose stated purpose is things the answer is "no" to. It now says what is actually happening, carries the phase order, and says why Arabic, Hebrew and Persian are on neither list: RTL is a layout and bidi problem rather than a longer catalogue, and shipping it as though it were the same kind of work is how an RTL build ends up unusable with nobody saying so. |