Three places built user-visible English out of expressions rather than
writing it as JSX text, so the extraction codemod never found them and
they stayed English in all nine languages — including the five that have
been in production for weeks.
The calendar view switcher was the worst of them: it spelled its labels
as `v[0].toUpperCase() + v.slice(1)`, which is correct English and
untranslatable anywhere else. Day, Week, Month and Agenda were already in
every catalogue, sitting unused, because the buttons never asked for
them. They now come from a Record<View, () => string>, so TypeScript
makes the map exhaustive and adding a view forces adding its label. The
labels are functions rather than values: a module-level object would
capture whichever language happened to load first and keep it.
The other two needed new source strings, added to all nine catalogues:
the composer's title for an untitled draft ("New message"), its status
line ("Sending…", "Saving…", "Error", "Saved {when}", "Unsaved"), and the
agenda view's own title ("Agenda from {date}").
This is not the whole of it. A sweep for the same shape — template
literals, toast arguments, and dialog props rather than JSX text — turns
up roughly a hundred more strings, mostly toasts and confirmation
dialogs. Those are a second extraction pass rather than a fix, and are
left for one.
781 of 796 strings. Generated by AI, unreviewed, marked Beta.
The thing this catalogue had to avoid is the reason it took the work it did.
Ukrainian and Russian share a script and share a plural rule -- one, few,
many, with 11 counting as many and 21 counting as one -- and share almost
nothing else that matters in a mail client. «Вхідні» is not «Входящие»,
«Кошик» is not «Корзина», «Листування» is not «Цепочка». A Ukrainian
catalogue produced by adapting the Russian one would pass every structural
check in this repo and still be the wrong language, and a Ukrainian reader
would notice in the first sentence and would be right to resent it. The
vocabulary here was chosen against what Ukrainian software says, not against
the neighbouring file.
Two words worth naming: «тека» rather than «папка» for folder, which is the
form Ukrainian software settled on; and «мітка» for label rather than
Russian's «ярлык», which in Ukrainian means a shortcut and would be a small
false friend on every screen.
Plurals tested against the shipped catalogue at 1, 2, 4, 5, 11, 21 and 0, plus
the check that every counted string carries all four categories. A missing
"few" falls back to "other" silently and is grammatical often enough to go
unnoticed.
The cross-check that Ukrainian and Russian are actually different files is
worth having but cannot live here: Russian is still an open pull request, so
ru.ts does not exist on this branch. It belongs in a follow-up once both have
landed.
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