The interface speaks Slovak

969 strings, an instance default and a per-person choice, and no half-done corner:
the admin prose is translated too. Design and reasoning: LLeMbas.wiki/Translations.

KEYED BY THE ENGLISH SENTENCE

A missing entry renders the key, which is the English -- so an untranslated string
looks as it always did, an English instance is byte-for-byte 1.6.0, and a
half-finished catalogue is a half-translated page rather than a page of dotted key
names. The cost is that editing an English sentence orphans its translation
silently, which is what tests/test_translations.py asserts in both directions.

No gettext: .po -> .mo is a build step and this project does not have one.

A JINJA GLOBAL, AND THEREFORE A CONTEXTVAR

`t()` is a global for the reason `brand` already documents -- render() is bypassed
by 25 TemplateResponse calls and 8 get_template().render() calls, the latter being
the SSE frames, which have no Request at all. A global is bound once at import and
the language is per person, so the active language is a ContextVar set per request.

🚨 `get_current_user` had to become `async def`. FastAPI runs a sync dependency in a
threadpool, and anyio copies the context in and discards it on the way out -- so
the language was set where nothing could see it and every page rendered in the
instance's language whatever anybody had chosen, with no error anywhere.

NOT TRANSLATED, ON PURPOSE

Everything a model reads: the 60 prompt fragments, and the dates in harness.py,
schedule/runner.py and schedule/compile.py. Only `i18n.stamp` is localised, and
only where a person reads it -- with the *format* translatable as well as the
words, because "26. septembra 2026" is a different pattern rather than the same one
with different words in it. A process locale is not an option: global, not
thread-safe, two people's pages at once.

A second fragment telling models to answer in the reader's language was written
during this work and removed: `core.style` has said it since long before, and
test_an_empty_override_turns_a_fragment_off caught the duplicate.

THE BULK PASS

1213 sites wrapped by a one-off script that only touched patterns it could not
misread. It got three wrong in a way that mattered -- `t('…')` inside `attr="…"`
where the sentence held an apostrophe, closing the Jinja string and 500ing two
pages whose partials no test renders. tests/test_translations.py now compiles all
110 templates. It also wrapped the product's own name, an SSH key header, a
keystroke hint and an example URL, all taken back out: a string is not
translatable just because it is a string.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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				</p>

				{% if title_prompt %}

				<h3 class="admin-section-title">Chat title request</h3>

				<p class="card__lede">

				  Sent on its own after the first reply, not as part of any conversation.

				</p>

				<h3 class="admin-section-title">{{ t("Chat title request") }}</h3>

				<p class="card__lede">{{ t("Sent on its own after the first reply, not as part of any conversation.") }}</p>

				<pre class="prompt-preview"><code>{{ title_prompt }}</code></pre>

				{% else %}

				<h3 class="admin-section-title">Chat title request</h3>

				<p class="card__lede">

				  Empty, so no model is asked to name a chat. Chats are named from the first

				  thing said in them.

				</p>

				<h3 class="admin-section-title">{{ t("Chat title request") }}</h3>

				<p class="card__lede">{{ t("Empty, so no model is asked to name a chat. Chats are named from the first thing said in them.") }}</p>

				{% endif %}