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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co-authored by Claude Opus 5
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commit a16510aba8
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@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
<div class="interaction interaction--{{ ask.kind }}">
<p class="interaction__from">
{{ icon("sparkle", "icon--sm") }}
<span>The model is asking you</span>
<span>{{ t("The model is asking you") }}</span>
</p>
<form class="interaction__form"
@@ -70,13 +70,13 @@
<input type="{{ 'checkbox' if item.multiple else 'radio' }}"
name="choice.{{ item.key }}" value="{{ other_value }}">
<span class="interaction__option-body">
<span class="interaction__option-name">Something else</span>
<span class="interaction__option-name">{{ t("Something else") }}</span>
{# Never type="password". A model talked into asking for a
credential must not be handed a field that looks built for one,
and a chat transcript is not a place to keep secrets. #}
<input class="input interaction__other-input" type="text"
name="text.{{ item.key }}" autocomplete="off"
placeholder="Your own answer…">
placeholder="{{ t('Your own answer…') }}">
</span>
</label>
{% endif %}
@@ -130,17 +130,12 @@
</button>
</div>
<div x-show="editing" x-cloak>
<label class="visually-hidden" for="edit-{{ item.key }}">
Change this before it runs
</label>
<label class="visually-hidden" for="edit-{{ item.key }}">{{ t("Change this before it runs") }}</label>
<textarea class="textarea interaction__edit" id="edit-{{ item.key }}"
name="text.{{ item.key }}" rows="3" spellcheck="false"
x-ref="edit{{ item.key }}"
:disabled="!editing">{{ item.detail }}</textarea>
<p class="interaction__reason">
Allow runs what is in the box. It is not checked against this
chat's rules again — you typed it.
</p>
<p class="interaction__reason">{{ t("Allow runs what is in the box. It is not checked against this chat's rules again — you typed it.") }}</p>
</div>
{% else %}
<pre class="interaction__detail">{{ item.detail }}</pre>
@@ -172,9 +167,7 @@
<button class="btn btn--primary" type="submit" name="verdict" value="allow">
{{ icon("check", "icon--sm") }} Allow
</button>
<button class="btn" type="submit" name="verdict" value="allow_always">
Always allow this
</button>
<button class="btn" type="submit" name="verdict" value="allow_always">{{ t("Always allow this") }}</button>
<button class="btn btn--danger" type="submit" name="verdict" value="deny"
x-show="!explaining">
{{ icon("x", "icon--sm") }} Don't
@@ -185,9 +178,7 @@
</button>
<div class="interaction__deny" x-show="explaining" x-cloak>
<label class="visually-hidden" for="deny-reason">
Why not, and what to do instead
</label>
<label class="visually-hidden" for="deny-reason">{{ t("Why not, and what to do instead") }}</label>
{# Never type="password", for the reason the "Something else" box
above states: a chat transcript is not a place to keep secrets. #}
{# `--deny-input` and not `--reason`: `.interaction__reason` already
@@ -195,14 +186,12 @@
<textarea class="textarea interaction__deny-input" id="deny-reason"
name="reason" rows="2" spellcheck="false" x-ref="reason"
:disabled="!explaining"
placeholder="Why not, and what to do instead…"></textarea>
placeholder="{{ t('Why not, and what to do instead…') }}"></textarea>
<div class="interaction__deny-actions">
<button class="btn btn--danger" type="submit" name="verdict" value="deny">
{{ icon("x", "icon--sm") }} Don't, and tell it why
</button>
<button class="btn btn--sm" type="button" @click="explaining = false">
Cancel
</button>
<button class="btn btn--sm" type="button" @click="explaining = false">{{ t("Cancel") }}</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>