The deterministic fallbacks nine metric surfaces render when no provider is
reachable carried German and English bodies only. `getLocalizedText` returned
`locale === "de" ? de : en`, so French, Spanish, Italian and Polish readers got
English — on the no-key path, an outage, a spent budget or a timeout, which is
precisely when this text is the whole assessment.
Every string now has a body per locale: the verdict leads and value sentences
of the signal-grounded composer, the per-metric labels and pointers, and the
eight no-signal floors. Selection reads the reader's locale; English stays as
the structural floor for a locale that is ever genuinely missing a body.
The bodies are written per language, not translated word-for-word. fr/es/it
replace the comparative adjective ("higher than your usual average") with a
preposition — au-dessus de / por encima de / sopra — because a comparative
would have to agree in gender with the metric noun, and the labels do not share
one. Polish restructures further: the sentence takes `wynosi`, which is
invariant for the subject's gender, and the comparison uses powyżej / poniżej
with the genitive; the labels span all three genders, so nothing that inflects
can sit in a shared template.
The tone harness grades the four locales by the same rules rather than passing
them by default: false cheer, clinical-verdict and imperative-opener vocabulary
extended to all six, the no-assessment sentinel keyed per locale instead of a
de/en binary, and a byte-identity guard that fails if any locale silently falls
back to the English text again. The value-led-opener rule was rewritten as
well — it assumed the copula sits against the figure, which under-matched its
own second locale (German "liegt aktuell bei 24") and would have missed all
four new ones.
Marc-André Bombeck
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