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#855 changed the English organization_already_exists_advisory to say "domain %2$s", but none of the 14 translations changed. They still show the old wording. AGENTS.md asks for translations to follow English edits, but nothing checks it.

What changed

  • .github/scripts/stale-translations.mjs runs on pull requests. For each string whose English wording changed, it fails on every locale whose translation of that string did not change. Casing and punctuation edits and translatable="false" strings are ignored.
  • The 14 translations of organization_already_exists_advisory now name the domain.
  • AGENTS.md drops the sentence the check now enforces. The rules about added strings and translatable="false" stay.

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  • The check catches a translation left unchanged. It cannot tell whether a changed translation is correct.
  • Added strings with no translation are left to Android lint.

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Organization-exists advisory in Spanish on an API 36 emulator, reached by a real flow on a throwaway instance. Before: main 625db08f. After: this PR. App locale set with cmd locale set-app-locales; no app changes. The first row is the advisory cropped from the full screens below it.

Before After
Advisory before, ends "y example.com" Advisory after, ends "y el dominio example.com"
Advisory reads y example.com Advisory reads y el dominio example.com

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  • Improvements
    • Clarified the existing-organization advisory across multiple languages by identifying the second detail as the organization’s domain.
  • Chores
    • Pull request checks now flag translations that may be outdated after English text changes.
  • Documentation
    • Updated translation guidance to explain that new strings should be added to every language and missing translations display in English.

mikepitre and others added 2 commits October 16, 2026 15:15
stale-translations.mjs compares values/strings.xml with the PR base. For
each string whose English wording changed (casing and punctuation
ignored), it reports every values-*/strings.xml whose translation of
that string stayed the same, naming the file, the string and the old
and new English text. Checks runs it on pull requests, so AGENTS.md
drops the rule the check now enforces.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#855 added "domain" to the English advisory but left the 14
translations on the old wording. Each translation now names the domain.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Adds a script that detects translations unchanged after English text changes. The pull request workflow runs the check. The organization advisory now identifies the second placeholder as a domain in the changed locale files.

Changes: Translation Check and Updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Parse and detect stale translations
.github/scripts/stale-translations.mjs, .github/scripts/stale-translations.test.mjs
Parses translatable strings and compares English and locale values across revisions. Tests cover stale, updated, case-only, and non-translatable strings, plus entity handling and attribute order.
Run the check on pull requests
.github/workflows/checks.yml, AGENTS.md
The workflow fetches the pull request base branch and runs the check. Translation guidance no longer instructs contributors to update every language when English text changes.
Clarify the organization advisory in locale strings
source/ui/src/main/res/values-*/strings.xml
Updates the organization advisory in the changed locale files to identify the second placeholder as a domain.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant GitHubActions
  participant Git
  participant StaleTranslations
  GitHubActions->>Git: Fetch pull request base branch
  GitHubActions->>StaleTranslations: Run with FETCH_HEAD
  StaleTranslations->>Git: Read string resources at revisions
  StaleTranslations-->>GitHubActions: Report stale entries and return status
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 1abe7

The PR adds a check for stale translations and clarifies the organization advisory in locale strings. No concrete current-head failure was established, so no material merge-readiness risk remains beyond normal checks.

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- Line 7: Update the STRING pattern used by staleTranslations to match string
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🟡 Minor · Decode XML entities before comparing wording. · stale-translations.mjs:18-32

.github/scripts/stale-translations.mjs:18-32
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Decode XML entities before comparing wording.

parseStrings keeps XML entities in the raw string body. Therefore, Hello and Hello &quot; normalize to hello and helloquot. A punctuation-only edit can then enter the stale-translation branch and fail the pull-request check.

Suggested fix
-const wording = text => text.toLowerCase().replace(/[^\p{L}\p{N}%$]/gu, '');
+const XML_ENTITIES = { '&quot;': '"', '&apos;': "'", '&amp;': '&', '&lt;': '<', '&gt;': '>' };
+const wording = text => text
+  .replace(/&(quot|apos|amp|lt|gt);/g, entity => XML_ENTITIES[entity])
+  .toLowerCase()
+  .replace(/[^\p{L}\p{N}%$]/gu, '');
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Update the wording normalization used by staleTranslations to decode XML
entities before removing punctuation, so entity-encoded punctuation compares the
same as its literal character and does not falsely mark translations stale.

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to decode XML entities before removing punctuation, so entity-encoded
punctuation compares the same as its literal character and does not falsely mark
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🟡 Minor · Fail when an explicit Git ref cannot be resolved. · stale-translations.mjs:40-47

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Fail when an explicit Git ref cannot be resolved.

read converts any failed git show into an empty resource. An invalid baseRef or headRef therefore makes the comparison skip all English entries and return success. The direct command-line entrypoint can report a passing check without checking changed strings.

Validate the ref before reading the file. Keep the empty result only for a valid ref that does not contain the requested resource file.

Suggested fix
 function read(ref, file) {
   if (ref === undefined) return fs.existsSync(file) ? fs.readFileSync(file, 'utf8') : '';
+  execFileSync('git', ['rev-parse', '--verify', `${ref}^{commit}`], {
+    encoding: 'utf8',
+    stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'ignore'],
+  });
   try {
     return execFileSync('git', ['show', `${ref}:${file}`], { encoding: 'utf8', stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'ignore'] });
   } catch {
     return '';
   }
 }
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Update read so an explicit ref is validated as a resolvable commit before
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