* Fix wrong and missing translations across 17 locales
`errors.8` is `ErrReadOnly` (`backend/app/rest/httperrors.go:29`), but 13
catalogues carried a copy of `errors.7`, which is `ErrUserBlocked`. A
reader who simply hit a read-only thread was told they had been blocked,
in Belarusian, Bulgarian, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Finnish, French,
Japanese, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese and Simplified
Chinese. Each now says the page is read-only, in the terminology that
catalogue already uses for its read-only badge.
Czech had an off-by-one: `errors.19`, restricted words, carried the text
of `errors.18`, file not found, and `errors.18` was left in English. So a
comment caught by the word filter reported a missing file. Both rewritten.
Also corrected, all of the same class:
- `de` `vote.downvote` had a leading space
- `mk` had dropped `{shortcut}` from the bold, italic and link tooltips,
losing the keyboard hints
- `fi` `comment.pin` was "Sitoo", which means "it binds", and `comment.unpin`
followed from it; `errors.forbidden` was misspelled "Kieletty."
- `be` `errors.failed-fetch` ended in a stray "r"
- `zh-tw` `authPanel.read-only` wrote 唯獨 for 唯讀
- `ja` `errors.conflict` used 相衝, which is not Japanese usage
- `it` `auth.symbols-restriction` misspelled "numberi" and used "username"
where `auth.username` now says "Nome utente"
Nine Finnish strings, `it` `auth.username` and `zh-tw` `comment.time` were
left in English; `comment.time` is a format string and now matches the
other CJK locales at `{day} {time}`.
No English source string changes, and every runtime placeholder is
preserved. Reviewed by two independent passes, which between them reworded
five of these and found four of the pre-existing defects above.
* Complete every translation catalogue
No locale carries English text any more, and the Telegram authorisation
paragraph now reads as a sentence in all 23 of them.
That paragraph is assembled in `telegram-link.tsx` from five separate
keys with the link and the QR clause in the middle, so a catalogue that
translates each key in isolation produces word salad in any language
whose verb does not sit where English puts it. Japanese rendered as
"テレグラムを開く リンクで または QR コードをスキャン そこで..." and Korean, Persian,
Traditional Chinese and Czech had the same break. Each of those now
splits the sentence at the point its own grammar wants, and every
catalogue was checked by rendering both the wide and the narrow layout,
since the QR clause only appears above 768px.
Ten catalogues also had `auth.telegram-link`, which is the anchor text
and reads "by the link", left as "Telegram bot" from an older source
wording, so the paragraph named the bot twice and never said what the
link was for. Six of the block's keys had never been translated at all
in the 16 locales that ship it, and `auth.telegram-message-1/2/3` were
English in nine. None of these were visible to a check for "value equals
the English string", because none of them equalled it.
Two of the six untranslated keys are word for word the English of their
`subscribeByEmail` siblings, so each catalogue's own existing wording was
reused rather than a second phrasing invented for the same sentence.
Quotation marks in that paragraph now follow each language rather than
the English source: «» for be, ua, ru, fa, fr and ar, „“ for bg, cs, de
and mk, „” for pl and ro, ”” for fi, 「」 for ja and zh-tw.
The button the paragraph tells the reader to press is Telegram's own, and
Telegram ships no interface translation for Japanese, Thai or Vietnamese,
so those three now name it the way Russian and Traditional Chinese
already did, with the Latin label alongside the translated one.
Also swept and fixed: Vietnamese "Bằng đã huỷ đăng kí" for "Bạn", Spanish
"ó" for "o", Thai "คลิ๊ก" for "คลิก", an unclosed quotation mark in Arabic
`commentForm.upload-file-fail`, German alternating between tippen and
klicken for the same action, Czech infinitive "Otevřít" where the rest of
the paragraph is imperative, Macedonian "СО ЛИНК" in caps, French
"Sélectionner" on a button the text calls "Vérifier", a missing space
after a full stop in `ua` `errors.9`, and double spaces in `mk`, `pl` and
`vi`.
Left identical to English on purpose, because the word is the same in
that language: `RSS` and `Telegram` everywhere, "Email" in be, it, pl,
ro, ua and vi, "Site" in bp, fr and ro, and "Conflict." in ro. German and
Turkish do not use bare "Site" and say "Website" and "Web sitesi".
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