The account has had a `locale` since the beginning, and it only chose which
grammar quick add parsed a line with — so setting it to English changed nothing
anybody could see. This is the other half of that field, started.
`t()` reads `i18n.locale`, which is `$state`, so every component that calls it
redraws when the language changes; that is what makes the setting take effect
without a reload, and why the module is `.svelte.js`. Danish is the source and the
fallback: a key missing from English falls through to Danish rather than to the
key, because a Danish sentence in an English screen can be read and
`settings.notifications.title` cannot. `tag()` is the single place `Intl` is
asked, so dates follow the language instead of being `da-DK` in a dozen files.
`internal/i18n` is a Go package that exists only to fail the build when the two
dictionaries drift — the same trick `colors_test.go` plays on the palette. It
checks the placeholders as well as the keys: a translation that spells `{n}` as
`{antal}` leaves `{antal}` on the screen, which is worse than an untranslated
sentence because it looks like a bug in the app rather than a gap in a dictionary.
Converted so far: the shell. Sidebar, layout, quick add, task row, command
palette — fifty-two keys, and the surfaces people look at constantly. Twenty
files remain, the settings pages being the heavy ones.
The language picker is deliberately not wired up yet. It still says "Sprog i
hurtig tilføjelse" and still only changes the parser. Wiring it before the sweep
is done would hand anybody who picks English a bilingual screen — the
half-finished-theme failure `app.css` already taught us. As it stands Danish is
unchanged and English is not offered, which is the honest state for something
half done.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
