Add Catalan (ca) locale

[losimo]

Hi,

This adds Catalan to Fider. It follows locale/README.md: the two catalogues plus the four registration points (the locale.go constant and AllLocales, locales.ts, lingui.config.js, ssr.tsx).

All 323 strings are translated and reviewed against the Softcatalà style guide, which is the reference Catalan software localisation follows.

The three fields on the Locale struct I checked rather than guessed:

• MessageFormatCode: "ca" exists in gotnospirit/makeplural at the commit pinned in go.mod (199 CLDR cultures), so NewWithCulture("ca") resolves.
• PostgresConfig: "simple" because PostgreSQL ships no catalan text search configuration in the versions Fider runs against. I checked on postgres:12; postgres:17 does have one, but simple is the safe floor.
• lingua.Catalan exists in lingua-go v1.4.0.

One thing worth flagging, since it's a choice and not a mechanical translation.
The English catalogue calls the same object three different things depending on the string: "idea" in ten of them, "suggestion" in three, "post" in the rest.

Catalan uses one word throughout, so the interface reads consistently. It seemed better than carrying the variation across, but say the word if you'd rather it mirrored the English.

I ran make build to check the registration points compile and that the strings end up in the SSR bundle, and I've had it running on a live instance for a day.

Related: #1674, about the admin pages, which this doesn't touch.

[mattwoberts]

Thanks a lot for this! The wiring is right. The locale.go fields check out (ca exists in makeplural, lingua.Catalan exists in v1.4.0, and simple is the right Postgres config; the SQL search mapping falls back to simple anyway). I built it merged onto current main (Go build, lingui compile, SSR bundle) and every server string parses and renders.

The catalogue does need another pass, though. A fair number of strings still look like unreviewed machine translation, and a few break the UI. Grouped by severity:

Broken markup or wrong content

• mysettings.apikey.documentation: "…llegiu la documentació oficial <0></0>." The <0> is empty, so the documentation link renders with no text. It should wrap the text: "…llegiu la <0>documentació oficial</0>."
• email.delete_post.text (server): "<strong>{title}</strong> ha estat eliminat <strong></strong>." Empty <strong>; "eliminat" should be inside it.
• modal.deleteaccount.text: the tag structure has changed. In English <2> is nested inside <1> (<1>This process is irreversible. <2>Are you sure?</2></1>), but the Catalan closes <1> first and puts <2> after it. The <2> text also says "Escriviu el vostre correu electrònic per confirmar-ho", but this dialog has no email field, just a Confirm button. It should be something like <1>Aquest procés és irreversible. <2>N'esteu segur?</2></1>.
• mysettings.message.avatar.custom says "200×200 píxels", but the English (and the code) say 50×50.

Wrong meaning

key	current	issue
error.internalerror.title	Dispara!	literal "fire!" (as in a gun); e.g. "Vaja!" / "Ostres!"
moderation.empty	Tots esteu atrapats!	"you're all trapped"; e.g. "Ja ho teniu tot al dia!"
menu.signout	Tanca	means "Close"; "Tanca la sessió"
action.confirm	Confirmada	past participle; "Confirma"
label.letter	Carta	a posted letter; this is the avatar type, so "Lletra"
property.key	Tecla	keyboard key; "Clau"
action.commentsfeed	Font del comentari	"source of the comment"; "Canal de comentaris"
mynotifications.label.readrecently	Llegiu els darrers 30 dies.	an instruction to read; "Llegides els darrers 30 dies."
error.expired.title	Caducitat	noun; "Caducat"
header.nav.feedback	Tots els comentaris	collides with actual comments; e.g. "Tots els suggeriments" to match postdetails.backtoall

Word order

• validation.maxstringlen: "menys de caràcters {len}" → "menys de {len} caràcters"
• validation.custom.maxattachments (client.json): "Es permeten un màxim d'adjunts {number}." → "Es permet un màxim de {number} adjunts." (the server.json one is already right)
• home.lonely.suggestion: "creeu suggeriments <0>com a mínim 3</0>" → "creeu <0>com a mínim 3</0> suggeriments"

Consistency

• "post" terminology: the description says one word is used throughout, but "missatges" (home.postfilter.option.myposts, home.postscontainer.label.viewmore), "entrada" (home.lonely.text) and "publicacions" (roadmap.blank.description, email.delete_account_requested.text) are still there.
• Register: most strings use vós, but several use tu (modal.signin.header, modal.rss.title, label.subscribe, modal.deletecomment.text, mynotifications.page.subtitle, newpost.modal.description.placeholder, newpost.modal.title.placeholder, signin.message.emailsent, signin.code.locked, showpost.commentinput.placeholder, roadmap.blank.description, email.delete_account_requested.cancel, which mixes both in one sentence) and a few use vostè (mysettings.dangerzone.notice "estigui segur", email.footer.noreply "no respongui", modal.rss.description "subscriure's").
• email.subscription.change / email.subscription.unsubscribe are capitalised ("Canvieu…", "Cancel·la…"), but they're inserted mid-sentence into email.footer.subscription_notice ("Podeu {view}, {unsubscribe} o {change}"), so they should be lowercase and in the same form as email.subscription.view ("vegeu-lo…").

Small things

• linkmodal.url.placeholder: https://exemple.com is a real, registered domain. Please keep https://example.com.
• server.json is missing validation.custom.maximagepixels and validation.custom.imageprocessingbusy (added to en recently).
• app/models/enum/locale.go: the // AllLocales contains all supported locales comment now sits above LocaleCatalan; please move it back above AllLocales.
• Please also add ca to the language list in the Makefile locale-reset target. It isn't mentioned in locale/README.md (our omission), but it has its own hard-coded list.

On the terminology question: using one word throughout is fine by me, and better than copying the English inconsistency.

Thanks again, happy to take another look once it's updated.

[losimo]

Thanks for the detail. The grouping by severity made this easy to work through,
and every item below was checked against the string it names. The branch is now
merged onto current main, so the two catalogues are complete again at 245 and
80 strings.

Fixed

Broken markup

mysettings.apikey.documentation now wraps the text:
"…llegiu la <0>documentació oficial</0>."

email.delete_post.text:
"<strong>{title}</strong> ha estat <strong>eliminat</strong>."

modal.deleteaccount.text: <2> sits inside <1> again, matching the English,
and the text no longer asks for an email address:
"…</0><1>Aquest procés és irreversible. <2>N'esteu segur?</2></1>". Good catch
on that one. The dialog has only a Confirm button.

mysettings.message.avatar.custom says 50×50, as the English and the code do.

Word order

All three, plus the verb agreement in validation.custom.maxattachments, which
now reads the same as the server.json one.

Consistency

The five remaining post strings are now «suggeriment»:
home.postfilter.option.myposts, home.postscontainer.label.viewmore,
home.lonely.text, roadmap.blank.description and
email.delete_account_requested.text. roadmap.blank.description also moves to
the formal imperative, since it is the application addressing the user, so it
covers one of your register items too.

email.subscription.change and email.subscription.unsubscribe are lowercase
and in the same imperative form as email.subscription.view, since all three are
inserted mid-sentence.

The two missing keys

validation.custom.maximagepixels and validation.custom.imageprocessingbusy
came in with the merge and are translated. Neither carries «si us plau» for
"Please": Catalan software interfaces drop it, which is what the rest of this
catalogue already does.

Small things

linkmodal.url.placeholder is back to https://example.com. You were right to
flag it, and the consequence is worse than the style: exemple.com is a
registered domain, so the placeholder pointed readers at an unrelated site. We
ran the same check over another large catalogue afterwards and found four more of
them, so thanks for that one. It has become a check we keep.

app/models/enum/locale.go: the // AllLocales contains all supported locales
comment is back above AllLocales.

Makefile: ca added to the locale-reset list.

One we would like to keep as it is

label.subscribe → «Subscriu-t'hi». You list it with the tu strings that
should become vós.

The Catalan style guide we follow splits the treatment by who is addressing whom.
When the computer addresses the user it takes the vós imperative; when the user
commands the computer it takes tu. label.subscribe is a button label, so tu
is the prescribed form, for the same reason postdetails.backtoall reads «Torna
a tots els suggeriments» and not «Torneu».

Still open

Your other register items are right and we are working through them, including
the three vostè ones (mysettings.dangerzone.notice, email.footer.noreply,
modal.rss.description). That form does not appear in Catalan software
interfaces at all.

All eight items in the "wrong meaning" table are genuine, and none of them is a
mechanical fix, so they are going through our terminology review: «Sign out» →
«Tanca la sessió», «Key» → «Clau», «Letter» →
«Lletra», and the rest. We will align header.nav.feedback with
postdetails.backtoall as you suggest.

Both will come as a second push, and we will ping you.

Thanks again for building it merged onto main and for checking the locale.go
fields.

[losimo]

The rest is in. Everything you listed is now addressed except label.subscribe, which we explained above and are keeping.

Terminology

The Softcatalà English-Catalan dictionary splits each of these by domain, and the domain settles them.

property.key → «Clau». The dictionary gives «clau, contrasenya» under informàtica and «tecla» under música and tecnologia. This is an API key property. Our own catalogues already agreed: of 33 English strings with "key"
across three products, 32 said «clau» and this was the one that did not.

action.commentsfeed → «Canal de comentaris», from «canal de continguts» under internet. Three of the five "feed" strings here already said «canal». action.postsfeed moves too: it said «Canal de publicacions» and now says «Canal de suggeriments». You did not list that one; it turned up while fixing its sibling.

label.letter → «Lletra», and the string next to it already said «un avatar de lletres a partir de les vostres inicials».

menu.signout → «Tanca la sessió», which is also the form the dictionary's own usage examples show for the menu item.

header.nav.feedback → «Tots els suggeriments», matching postdetails.backtoall. Worth being precise here: the dictionary does give «comentaris» for feedback, so this is not a language point. It is that «comentari» is already taken by comment in this product, and the main menu read as "all the comments people left" when it
means "all the feedback people gave". Your word for it, "collides", was the right one.

Meaning

error.internalerror.title → «Ostres! Això no ho esperàvem…». "Shoot!" is an interjection and «Dispara!» was the order to fire a weapon.

moderation.empty → «Ja ho teniu tot al dia!». "You're all caught up" means nothing is pending, and «Tots esteu atrapats!» said the opposite of the good news the string carries.

mynotifications.label.readrecently → «Llegides els darrers 30 dies.». The imperative asked the reader to spend thirty days reading.

error.expired.title → «Caducat». "Expired" qualifies what has expired; «Caducitat» is the name of the fact.

action.confirm → «Confirma». It is an action label, so the imperative.

Register

All thirteen: modal.signin.header, modal.rss.title, modal.rss.description, modal.deletecomment.text, mynotifications.page.subtitle, newpost.modal.description.placeholder, newpost.modal.title.placeholder,
signin.message.emailsent, signin.code.locked, showpost.commentinput.placeholder, email.delete_account_requested.cancel, mysettings.dangerzone.notice and email.footer.noreply.

Three of them also drop «si us plau» for "Please". Catalan interfaces leave it out, because the imperative already makes the request.

email.delete_account_requested.cancel had both persons in the same sentence, as you noted, and «canviar d'opinió» is not pronominal in Catalan, so the pronoun goes with it.

One more we found

page.pendingactivation.text2 said «activar-la», agreeing with the inbox, when what gets activated is the site, as the string right before it says. Not on your list; our own style check pointed at the string and reading it turned up the
pronoun.

State

The branch is on current main, both catalogues are complete at 245 and 80 strings, and every string that changed was checked against the source it translates.

Thanks for the review. It was specific enough to act on line by line, and two of your items turned into checks we now run over every catalogue.

[losimo]

Three more, none of them on your list. Our own style and typography checks pointed at them while going over the catalogue at the end.

page.pendingactivation.resending and showpost.loading now read «S'està reenviant…» and «S'està carregant…». The Catalan style guide writes software progress messages with the periphrasis rather than the bare gerund.

modal.showvotes.query.placeholder had three defects in one string, and the third was a consequence of the second. It wrote the ellipsis as three dots instead of the single «…» character, which is the most repeated defect we have measured in any catalogue. It used the informal imperative where a field's help text has the application addressing the user, so it now matches «Deixeu un comentari» in showpost.commentinput.placeholder. And with «Cerca» in front, the spell checker was reading «usuaris» as a postponed adjective and complaining about its
agreement; with «Cerqueu» that goes away.

Neither catalogue now writes an ellipsis with three dots.

[mattwoberts]

Thanks, this all looks good now. I went back through everything and it's all in. Happy with keeping «Subscriu-t'hi» too, that reasoning makes sense and it matches the other button labels.

One last thing, and it's my fault: the three email.subscription.* strings only ever get dropped in after «Podeu…» in the email footer, so they need to be infinitives, not imperatives. I pointed you at «vegeu-lo» as the model, which was already wrong. Sorry about that. Should be:

• email.subscription.view → «veure'l al vostre navegador»
• email.subscription.unsubscribe → «cancel·lar-ne la subscripció»
• email.subscription.change → «canviar les preferències de notificació»

Optional, while you're in there: email.footer.subscription_notice starts with «Esteu rebent…» but _notice2 and _notice3 say «Rebeu…».

Once that's in I'll merge it 👍