HealthLog/docs/audit/v1415-i18n-coverage.md

v1.4.15 — i18n coverage audit

Date: 2026-05-09 Stage: C4 Scope: every t("…") / useTranslations() call in src/ vs. messages/en.json and messages/de.json. Goal: ensure every v1.4.15-introduced key (cleanup A1–A4, B-mobile, B1–B6, C2, C3) has a non-empty, non-placeholder translation in BOTH locales and follows the namespace conventions baked in by the Stage 4b admin reorg.

Method

1. grep -rh -oE 't\("[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_.-]*"' src/ — extract every call-site key (1318 unique).
2. Walk both JSON files manually (no JSON.parse, since duplicate keys silently shadow earlier values) — same parser used by the existing i18n-locale-integrity.test.ts.
3. Compare:
   • drift: keys in EN but not DE, or vice versa
   • empty: value === ""
   • placeholders: value === keyLastSegment, or /\b(TODO|FIXME|XXX|TBD)\b/i
4. Cross-locale identical strings checked per-namespace — many are legitimate (brand names, ICU placeholder strings, anglicisms used in DE) so the heuristic only flagged for review, not auto-fix.

Findings

Check	Count	Notes
Total keys (EN)	1817
Total keys (DE)	1817
Keys only in EN	0	full parity
Keys only in DE	0	full parity
Empty values (EN)	0
Empty values (DE)	0
TODO/FIXME placeholders (EN)	0
TODO/FIXME placeholders (DE)	0
Used-in-src/ but missing in EN	0	after excluding allow-list below
EN==key (last segment, both EN+DE)	5	all legitimate (see §Legitimate)

Allow-list — used-key matches that are NOT i18n keys

These appeared in the grep but are deliberately excluded:

• job.* — Wide Event names passed to withBackgroundEvent("job.x"), not i18n.
• scheduler.tick — Wide Event name.
• empty.measurements.* — JSDoc @example block in src/components/ui/empty-state.tsx, never executed.
• settings.testConnection.errors. — dynamic concat root in src/components/settings/test-connection-button.tsx. Concrete error-codes (generic, credentials_rejected, timeout, …) are all present.
• nope.also.missing, telegram.__definitely_missing__ — vitest fixtures asserting fallback behaviour (src/lib/__tests__/server-translator.test.ts).

Legitimate EN==DE==key cases

5 entries where both locales return the key's last segment unchanged:

Path	Value	Reason
settings.ntfy	ntfy	brand name, not translated
classifications.bp.Optimal	Optimal	identical word in EN and DE
classifications.bp.Normal	Normal	identical
classifications.pulse.Normal	Normal	identical
classifications.bodyFat.Fitness	Fitness	identical (anglicism in DE medical/fitness context)

A further 25 entries are EN==key but DE has an actual translation (classifications.bmi.Underweight → Untergewicht, etc.) — these are fine.

v1.4.15 new namespaces — coverage check

Namespace	Origin	EN keys	DE keys	Drift	Empty
admin.section.backups.*	B1 backups	35	35	0	0
achievements.*	B4	106	106	0	0
onboarding.tour.*	B5	18	18	0	0
admin.overview.*	A2	16	16	0	0
settings.notificationStatus.*	B3	13	13	0	0
settings.integrationStatus.*	B2	6	6	0	0
doctorReport.*	B6	90	90	0	0
quickAdd.* (common.add etc)	A3	(common)	—	0	0

Naming consistency

Repo doc note: Stage 4b moved admin keys under admin.section.<slug>.*. Verified all v1.4.15-introduced admin sections follow that pattern:

admin.section.{system-status,general,services,integrations,
              feedback,reminders,users,api-tokens,login-overview,
              backups,danger-zone}

Pre-Phase-4b legacy keys remain at the flat admin.* namespace (e.g. admin.bugReportRepo, admin.userManagement) — those are out of scope for this audit (renaming would touch many components for zero behavioural gain). New stage-B code did NOT introduce inconsistent flat keys; e.g. B5 used onboarding.tour.* (not tour.*); B4 used achievements.* (not flat badges.*); B1 used admin.section.backups.* (not flat backups.*); B2/B3 added settings.{integrationStatus,notificationStatus}.* under the existing settings umbrella.

Outcome

Zero gaps closed. The five parallel stage-B work-streams and the C2/C3 stages each added their own EN+DE translations as part of their own commits, so by the time C4 ran sequentially after Batch 2 there was nothing left to back-fill. The audit instead converted to a quality-assurance sweep: tightening i18n-locale-integrity.test.ts to lock in the non-empty + non-placeholder invariants going forward.

Test guard

src/lib/__tests__/i18n-locale-integrity.test.ts is extended with:

• assertion that no value in either locale file is the empty string
• assertion that no value equals its key's last segment (with an explicit allow-list for the 5 legitimate cases above)
• non-fatal warning (logged via console.warn in CI) for values containing \bTODO\b / \bFIXME\b / \bXXX\b

These guards prevent regression: any future change that ships a "key": "" or "bugReport": "bugReport" value will see CI go red.