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[Epic] Internationalize the frontend app (i18n) #580

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@Davidnet

Tracking issue for internationalizing the Kiji Privacy Proxy frontend (Electron renderer + main process).

Goal

Route all user-facing strings through a translation layer and ship multiple languages.

Locales

en (base) · es · fr · ja. Non-English files start as machine-drafted translations for native-speaker refinement. Japanese needs a CJK font/layout check.

Approach

  • Renderer: react-i18next + i18next (+ browser-languagedetector), namespaced per feature area.
  • Electron main: standalone i18next sharing the same locale JSON (separate process — menus can't use React).
  • Language preference persisted via the existing Electron settings IPC.

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Rollout phases

  1. P1 — infra + full English extraction (no visible change; i18n: set up i18next infrastructure #571i18n: extract strings — onboarding, about & modals #576)
  2. P2 — language selector + Spanish drafted end-to-end (i18n: language selector + persistence #577, partial i18n: tooling, drafts & CI guardrails #579)
  3. P3 — French + Japanese drafts, Electron menus, CJK/layout pass, CI key-parity check (i18n: translate Electron main-process menus #578, i18n: tooling, drafts & CI guardrails #579)

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