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Adds zh-TW to SUPPORTED_LOCALES, the lazy catalog map, and lingui.config, with a complete 6,888-message catalog — compile --strict reports 0 missing. Third of the locale train (fr ✅ → ko ✅ → zh-TW → es → …).

Vocabulary conversion, not a glyph swap

Converted from the shipped zh-CN with Taiwan software vocabulary: 軟體/軟件, 程式/程序, 網路/網絡, 檔案/文件, 記憶體/內存, 專案/項目, 搜尋/搜索, 控制項/控件. A character-only mapping produces text that is technically Traditional but reads as mainland Chinese. Ambiguous characters verified in context rather than blanket-replaced: 處理程序 (process) and 文件 (document) are correct Taiwanese and stay; 制 in 強制/限制/控制 and 准 in 批准 are correct Traditional.

Locale resolution fix (required by this locale)

A second Chinese variant breaks base-language matching: zh-Hant, zh-Hant-TW, zh-HK, and zh-MO all resolved to Simplified — whichever zh-* comes first. Chrome and macOS report the script subtag, so this would hit most Taiwanese users on first launch. resolveLocale now reads script and region subtags and matches case-insensitively. The new tests fail against the old implementation (verified by reverting), so they are real guards.

Remote Access rename delta

Renamed ids translated fresh; the 11 changed-English strings retranslated rather than carried over stale.

Verification

  • bun run --cwd packages/i18n check exit 0; i18n tests 107/107; desktop typecheck clean
  • Final catalog scanned against a vetted 918-pair Simplified→Traditional table: remaining "simplified" characters are all context-correct Traditional (批准, 限制, 控制台)

https://claude.ai/code/session_012U97YWVsDvZwQkBaSGEmor


Summary by cubic

Adds a complete 6,888-message Traditional Chinese (zh-TW) catalog converted from zh-CN with Taiwan vocabulary (軟體, 程式, 網路), not a glyph-level swap. Also fixes Chinese locale resolution so Traditional-script preferences no longer land on Simplified.

Bug Fixes

  • resolveLocale now matches script and region subtags case-insensitively before falling back to base language.
  • zh-Hant, zh-Hant-TW, zh-HK, and zh-MO previously resolved to zh-CN; they now resolve to zh-TW.
  • BCP 47 extension subtags (e.g. -u-nu-latn) are stripped before matching since they modify formatting, not language identity.
  • The 11 renamed strings and 12 pages-watch strings that landed mid-flight were retranslated rather than carried over stale.

Written for commit 15ab8a8. Summary will update on new commits.

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  • New Features

    • Added Traditional Chinese (zh-TW) as a supported language.
    • Improved language selection for Traditional and Simplified Chinese regional preferences.
    • Locale matching now handles capitalization differences and standard language-tag extensions.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Chinese language preferences now resolve to the appropriate regional variant instead of defaulting incorrectly.

Adds zh-TW to SUPPORTED_LOCALES, the lazy catalog map, and lingui.config,
with a complete 6,888-message catalog converted from zh-CN.

The conversion is vocabulary-level, not glyph-level: Taiwan writes 軟體,
程式, 網路, 檔案, 記憶體, 專案, 搜尋, 控制項. Terms that are already
correct were left alone rather than "corrected" into errors: 處理程序
(process), 文件 (document, as against 檔案 for file), 制 in 強制/限制,
准 in 批准.

Also fixes resolveLocale, which a second Chinese variant breaks. Matching
on the base language alone sends every Traditional preference to whichever
zh-* comes first, so zh-Hant, zh-Hant-TW, zh-HK, and zh-MO all resolved to
Simplified. Chrome and macOS report the script subtag, so this would hit
most Taiwanese users on first launch. Resolution now reads script and
region subtags and matches case-insensitively, with tests proven to fail
against the old implementation.

Includes the Remote Access rename delta with the eleven changed-English
strings retranslated rather than carried over stale.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012U97YWVsDvZwQkBaSGEmor
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The i18n package adds zh-TW, improves Chinese locale resolution, and enables on-demand loading of the Traditional Chinese message catalog. Tests cover aliases, case-insensitive tags, and BCP 47 extensions.

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Traditional Chinese locale support

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Locale definitions and resolution
packages/i18n/src/locales.ts, packages/i18n/src/locales.test.ts
Adds zh-TW metadata. resolveLocale normalizes tags, handles Chinese script and region aliases, and ignores BCP 47 extensions. Tests cover these resolution paths.
Catalog loading and Lingui configuration
packages/i18n/lingui.config.ts, packages/i18n/src/index.ts
Adds zh-TW to the Lingui locale list and dynamically loads its message catalog.

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The PR correctly adds Traditional Chinese support, but an edge-case locale tag such as zh-HK-1901 may still resolve to Simplified Chinese instead of Traditional Chinese. The change is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner awareness and a small resolver fix plus regression test.

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  participant I18nInitialization
  participant resolveLocale
  participant CATALOGS
  I18nInitialization->>resolveLocale: Resolve locale preferences
  resolveLocale-->>I18nInitialization: Return zh-TW
  I18nInitialization->>CATALOGS: Load zh-TW catalog
  CATALOGS-->>I18nInitialization: Return Traditional Chinese messages
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zh-TW-u-nu-latn carries a numbering preference, not a different language,
but the extension subtags defeated exact and alias matching and demoted
the tag to zh-CN. Everything from the first singleton on is cut before
matching. Per review.

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69-70: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Find the region before variant subtags.

For zh-HK-1901, region becomes 1901, so the zh-hk alias is skipped and resolution can fall back to zh-CN. Extract the two-letter or three-digit region subtag and add a regression test.

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In `@packages/i18n/src/locales.ts` around lines 69 - 70, Update the locale parsing
around the region assignment in locales.ts to select the two-letter or
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zh-HK-1901 resolve the zh-hk alias. Add a regression test covering this locale
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Main gained twelve strings from #6952/#6932 while this PR was in CI, and
compile --strict correctly refused the merge ref. Converted from the
shipped zh-CN with this catalog's vocabulary: 代理程式, 執行中, 傳送.

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