Seedelf-Wallet

Chunk 33 · The store listing in Spanish and Japanese

The owner asked on 2026-10-12, as 1.5.0’s last feature, from post-release-roadmap.md’s Kept in mind: the listing in Spanish and Japanese, which the wallet has spoken since chunk 19. The store’s analytics show users of both.

Status: ✅ built 2026-10-12 on web-wallet/store-listing-i18n, from main after #304. One PR: the build and the docs together, so this file went straight to the archive. What still holds is in store/README.md, with each language’s text ready to paste. The privacy policy has no new entry: nothing is sent or kept.

How the store does it

One item, one package. A listing in another language has two halves:

• The title and the summary come from the package. They’re the manifest’s name and description. With _locales/<language>/messages.json in the package and default_locale in the manifest, a __MSG_…__ description is read in each language Chrome has a file for.
• The description and the screenshots are entered on the dashboard. Once the package has _locales, the Store listing tab gets a language list at its top, one entry for each _locales folder, and each language takes its own description and its own screenshots (Google’s page). A language’s own screenshots show before the global ones. The small promo tile can’t be localized.

So the package must carry _locales before the dashboard offers anything: the summary ships in 1.5.0’s zip, and the description and screenshots go in at its upload.

What changed

• The summary, SUMMARY in manifest.ts, in English, Spanish and Japanese. The manifest’s description is __MSG_appDesc__ and its default_locale is en. The build’s manifest plugin (vite.config.ts) writes _locales/<language>/messages.json beside manifest.json, from buildLocales(). scripts/package.mjs zips the whole of dist/, so they ship with nothing more.
• The title stays Seedelf Wallet in every language: it’s a name (glossary).
• The screenshots (e2e/store-images.spec.ts): the flow is still driven in English, and each screen is shot in English, then Spanish, then Japanese, by setting seedelf.language (LOCAL_LANGUAGE) in local storage, which every open page follows as it does a choice in Settings. Each language has its captions (CAPTIONS). English’s images stay at the top of docs/store/images/, byte for byte as they were; Spanish’s and Japanese’s are in es/ and ja/. The Japanese captions set lang="ja" and break lines between phrases (word-break: auto-phrase), with no negative letter spacing.
• The description, each language’s in store/README.md, with the upload’s steps. The release checklist (development.md) says to fill in all three languages at upload, and that the Japanese images need a Japanese font on the machine.

How the text was made

1. A draft per language, by a Claude agent, from the glossary and from the wallet’s own words in that language: each phrase the wallet already says (a private session, a return, Lovejoin’s boxes, Settings’ currency, the DRep options) was looked up in en.json and taken from es.json or ja.json, so the listing names things as the screens do.
2. A blind back-translation of each, by an agent that saw only that language’s text, then compared with the English. The meaning held. They flagged sentences that could be read two ways, and those were rewritten:
   • “Koios does it on preprod”, right after “our server logs neither your IP address nor what you ask”, could read in both languages as Koios logs them. Now Koios “reads the chain and submits the transactions” there. The English could be read that way too, so it now says Koios “reads and submits” on preprod: the one change to the English listing.
   • Japanese’s “fewer while few people use it” could read as fewer than 1 in 9, which sounds better. Now it’s the 9 that gets smaller.
   • Who asks before anything is signed read as the site in Spanish and was left open in Japanese. Now it’s the wallet.
   • Also: Japanese’s summary said staking was done “publicly” as an event is; “in public” is the public account now. “Make money public to an address” isn’t natural in either language, so the caption pays the address. “Directly” now says without Lovejoin. Spanish’s su for the wallet’s read as formal usted, and a few long sentences were split.
3. The rewritten sentences, back-translated blind again, out of context.

Flags left as they were, on purpose: the words the wallet itself uses (返却, 結び付く, 投票権, 資金提供, devolución, pulsa, parte de staking, retirar tu DRep), since the listing should match the screens; and what the English says the same way (“a fresh copy of their key”, “Or remove a Seedelf”, “the default depth”), since a translation shouldn’t explain more than the original. No native speaker has read either language, as with the wallet’s own (the owner accepted that on 2026-10-03).

Checks

• tests/manifest.test.ts, “gives the store’s summary in each language the wallet speaks, through Chrome’s _locales”: default_locale and the __MSG_appDesc__ description, one _locales entry per bundled language, and each summary at most 132 characters and naming Seedelf. It failed until Spanish’s and Japanese’s were in.
• Chrome reads them: dist/ loaded in Playwright’s Chromium under English, Spanish and Japanese UI languages. chrome.i18n.getMessage("appDesc") and the manifest’s description came back in each.
• SUMMARY’s languages are written out, not imported: tests/import-boundaries.test.ts keeps everything vite.config.ts loads clear of the i18n modules, and caught a type import of LanguageCode. The manifest test holds them to the bundled languages instead.
• The suites: Vitest 2,042 (2 skipped) on the default and the preprod-only build, and e2e 83 on the dev build, which carries the _locales.
• npm run store:images on the build: 15 screenshots. English’s are unchanged, and the Spanish and Japanese ones were looked at, all ten, with nothing cut off or left in English.

Not built

• A translated title. It’s the wallet’s name.
• A promo tile per language. The store can’t localize it, and it has no words.
• The listing in any other language. The store offers a language only for a _locales folder, and the wallet ships these three.

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