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#138 Localize the landing page into 10 languages
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2026-07-17
2026-07-17
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Originally created by: kristofferR
Adds a dependency-free internationalization layer to the landing page (docs/index.html), live at https://kristofferr.github.io/Carrier/ after merge.
Languages
English, Vietnamese, Portuguese (BR), Spanish, French, Thai, Filipino, Polish, Norwegian, Arabic — chosen for Messenger's largest markets (Vietnam, Brazil, Mexico/LatAm, France, Thailand, the Philippines, Poland, the Nordics, Egypt/MENA).
What's localized
- 132 keyed strings per locale — hero, features, the full FAQ (friendly + technical), downloads, footer, and the app-window replica's chat.
- Cultural recasting, not just translation — each locale's fictional chat cast gets local names and relationships (Mẹ / Mãe / Mamá / Maman / แม่ / Nanay / Mama / Mamma / ماما), and the conversations are adapted (Sunday family dinner, a puppy announcement, the grandmother's tomato garden, a locale-appropriate dessert on the way — brigadeiro, flan, basbousa, sernik…).
- Per-locale profile photos — 70 AI-generated portraits of fictional people authentic to each culture, under
docs/avatars/{locale}/. - RTL for Arabic — the page mirrors (
dir="rtl"); the app-window replica deliberately stays LTR like a real macOS screenshot, with bidi-aware text so Arabic content still reads right-to-left inside it.
How it works
A language picker in the nav, navigator.language auto-detection (with pt→pt-BR, no→nb, tl→fil fallbacks) and localStorage persistence. Still a single self-contained file — locale dictionaries are inlined; only the per-locale avatar webps are separate assets. The notification simulation, OS/architecture-aware download selection, and all accessible names (language/theme/preview controls, nav landmarks, hero icon alt) re-localize on language change.
Review notes
Ran five local crq preflight rounds; addressed every finding — architecture-specific download labels now reapply after locale changes, the notification-toast clone is translated per locale, the unread preview's timestamp localizes (including under reduced-motion), and all page-level aria-label/alt strings localize. A final confirmatory preflight could not complete (review service errors), so fleet auto-review is left enabled for this PR.
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Ticket changed by: kristofferR