PR #226 landed the i18n infrastructure and Chinese (zh-CN) translations.
This follow-up adds the safeguards that make accepting community
translations sustainable without exposing the project to subtle
state-aligned framing in future translation PRs.
Changes:
frontend/src/i18n/index.tsx (renamed from .ts)
- Add LOCALES registry: a single source of truth for available
languages and their NATIVE display names ("English", "中文 (简体)").
Adding a new language is now a one-entry change here plus a
JSON file.
- Add isLocale() guard so an unknown value in localStorage falls
through to navigator.language detection instead of corrupting
state.
- File renamed to .tsx because it contains JSX. Next.js tolerated
JSX in .ts but Vite/Oxc (used by vitest) does not.
frontend/src/components/SettingsPanel.tsx
Add a UI language picker to the Settings header — a small <select>
populated from LOCALES. Users no longer need the dev console to
switch languages. Locale change remains 100% client-side
(localStorage), no network call, no telemetry.
CONTRIBUTING.md (new)
Documents the translation-neutrality requirement that applies
symmetrically to all source countries:
- Translations must be technically faithful to the English source.
- Substitutions aligned with state propaganda from ANY country
(PRC, Russia, US, EU, etc.) will be rejected.
- The test is: "would a translator working strictly from the
English source produce this rendering?"
Also explains how translation PRs are reviewed and how to add
a new language.
.github/CODEOWNERS (new)
Auto-requests maintainer review on:
- /frontend/src/i18n/ (translation safety)
- /backend/auth.py, /backend/routers/wormhole.py,
/backend/services/mesh/, /backend/services/fetchers/
(the same paths recent security audits flagged as sensitive)
- /.github/workflows/, /.gitlab-ci.yml, /docker-compose*.yml,
/helm/ (build/deploy)
- /CONTRIBUTING.md, /.github/CODEOWNERS (policy itself)
frontend/src/__tests__/i18n/i18nProvider.test.tsx (new, 8 tests)
Locks in the i18n contract:
- LOCALES has both en and zh-CN with non-empty native labels
- Default English when navigator is English
- Auto-detect zh-CN when navigator language starts with "zh"
- localStorage preference overrides auto-detect
- setLocale persists to localStorage
- Unknown stored locale falls back to auto-detect
- Renders a real zh-CN translation (catches large-scale
translation removal in future PRs)
- Missing key falls back to the key itself
Note: i18n/index.tsx, the language toggle UI, the translation
policy, and the test suite together form a defense-in-depth setup.
The structural safety guarantee (no network calls, static JSON
bundled at build) is intact; this PR makes the social contract
around translations explicit and enforceable via branch
protection on CODEOWNERS-marked paths.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Introduce a lightweight i18n system with auto-detection of browser
language and localStorage persistence. Add complete Chinese translations
for all major UI sections: navigation, controls, update dialogs, node
activation, terminal launcher, data layers, settings, filters, and more.
Technical terms (Wormhole, Infonet, Mesh, Shodan, SAR, etc.) are
intentionally kept in English. Falls back to English when Chinese
translation is not found.
Co-authored-by: wangsudong <wangsudong@kylinos.cn>
Romain Baraud