Complete a plural category the target locale needs from the message's own
`other` branch during sync, so one missing branch no longer costs the whole
translation. Romanian arrived with `one` and `other` for all 156 of its
plurals and rendered English for every one of them. See docs/LOCALIZATION.md.
Fail the nightly export only when a catalog loses far more than churn
explains, rewrite a Crowdin em dash to the hyphen the source uses instead
of discarding the translation, and report a rejected message as a
rejection rather than a lost one. See docs/LOCALIZATION.md.
Define a list of protected technical terms that must retain their English source text in target
catalogs.
Enforce protected term parity in validate-locales.mjs and restore protected terms automatically
during Crowdin synchronization, recording any corrected translations in the sync report.
Two independent guards were failing the workflow on healthy input.
Retention read "exported value equals the English source" as a lost translation, but exports are
built with skipUntranslatedStrings, so Crowdin omits a key entirely once it stops carrying a
translation. Anything present in the export is by definition translated, and the equality check only
ever fired on correct work: Spanish "Error", "Feb" and "Cookie", French "Description", Portuguese
"Readwise". Retention now compares presence alone, which is what absence already meant. The same
inference lived in a legacyComplete branch that would have silently stopped protecting the 2,318
keys whose translation legitimately equals the source once any locale reached full translation.
Scheduled runs had no way out of that. The only escape hatch is allowed_translation_losses, a
workflow_dispatch input that is never persisted, so every schedule rediscovered the same losses and
failed until someone dispatched the run by hand.
The slot count rule then only runs for the keys it is given, and the sync passed none, so its
rejection filter was weaker than the locale validation running on its output one step later. An
invalid ja message survived the filter, reached the catalog, and failed the next step instead of
being dropped and reported. Move the source scan into locale-source-keys.mjs so the sync and
validate-locales.mjs derive the same keys.
The locale validator demanded every CLDR plural category, so each new ICU plural key took the daily
Crowdin sync red until a `many` branch was hand-added for Spanish and French. That branch can never
render: `many` selects at a million and over in Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese, and only
for fractional counts in Czech and Slovak, while every catalog plural counts whole items well below
a million and intl-messageformat falls back to `other` regardless. Require only the categories an
integer count 0..1000 can select, which is the same set every integer below a million selects, and
keep `other` always so the categories everyday counts reach stay mandatory.
Drop a target message that still fails validation from the sparse catalog instead of failing the
whole export, so one broken string can no longer block the other 23 languages for days. Report the
rejections in the run log and the pull request body, and keep the retention guard fatal when a
rejected message would replace a translation that is already in Git.
neon