20 translations use placeholder names that the code never passes, values are blank

fix(i18n): 20 translations use placeholder names that the code never passes, values are blank

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In 7 locales, some of the strings reference a placeholder the component doesn’t supply, vue-i18n renders it as an empty string. Most are visible to the user. The toolbar count for Turkish currently shows " paket gösteriliyor" with no number and the Romanian tooltip ends in a bare "@".
Causes:

Translated variable names, e.g. ro-RO {pachet}/{versiune}, nl {instellingen}
English renamed param after translation written, e.g. {total} → {count}, {name} → {handle}

pnpm i18n:check and find-invalid-translations.ts compare keys only. Lunaria tracks per file, none of them catch a key that still exists but where placeholders are no longer matching.

Changes

The values were rendered with vue-i18n 11 before and after the change.

Locale	Key	Was → Now	Effect
tr-TR	`filters.count.showing_all`	`{total}` → `{count}`	" paket gösteriliyor" → "1,234 paket gösteriliyor"
tr-TR	`filters.count.showing_filtered`	`{total}` → `{count}`	"10 / paket…" → "10 / 1,234 paket…"
tr-TR	`filters.count.showing_paginated`	`{start}-{end} / {total}` → `{pageSize} / {count}`	blank range
ro-RO	`package.stats.published_tooltip`	`{pachet}`/`{versiune}` → `{package}`/`{version}`	"…publicat @" → "…publicat vue@3.5.0"
nl	`shortcuts.disable_shortcuts`	`{instellingen}` → `{settings}`	settings link missing
nl	`filters.pagination.showing`	`{start}-{end}` → `{range}`	blank range (code passes `formatRange`)
de	`a11y.approach.p2`	`{about_link}` → `{about}`	`<i18n-t>` slot `#about` not rendered
pl-PL	chart alt text	`{version_count}` → `{versions_count}`, `{package_analysis}` → `{packages_analysis}`	blank alt text
zh-TW	`copy_alt.compare`, `facet_bar_general_description`	`{package_name}`/`{package}` → `{packages}`	blank alt text
ar-EG, tr-TR	`profile.seo_title`, `seo_description`	`{name}` → `{handle}`	page title missing the handle
tr-TR	`compare.selector.remove_package`	`{name}` → `{package}`	blank
tr-TR	`known_anomalies_range_named`	`{name}` → `{packageName}`	blank

Needs native-speaker review: 3 strings reworded, not just renamed

Renaming the variable won’t work for these so the wording changed. Needs a sanity-check:

ar-EG anomalies range: نطاق الشذوذ: {name} → {packageName}: من {start} إلى {end}, to match the params the code passes
tr-TR vulnerabilities: the code passes only count/critical/high, so moderate/low were rendering blank. Now {count} ({critical} kritik/{high} yüksek)
tr-TR profile invite: the code passes only handle, so {url} was blank in the Bluesky compose link. Now Merhaba {'@'}{handle}! … https://npmx.dev, matching en

Verification

i18n:check: no new errors; non-missing errors 129 → 108 from my check
_{Found with shipi18n check, which I authored and maintain. Each finding was verified by hand.}

When checking the locale files I also found translations that leave out something the English string has: a count, a name, a link, sometimes most of the sentence. The key is there, so nothing shows up as missing. I didn't touch these because fixing them needs someone who actually speaks the language. Listing them here to be addressed:

74 keys (104 key/locale pairs). The main pairs:

Most were translated without the value from the beginning, e.g. ar-EG "All ({count})" is just "الكل" ("All"), tr-TR "+{count} more" is "Daha fazla anahtar kelime" ("more keywords"), and the tr-TR privacy policy intro is one line ("npmx'e hoş geldiniz") where English has a full paragraph.
9 are out of date: English changed after translated. about.contributors.title was changed in feat: sort contributors list by role #1369 (Feb 13) to "... and {count} more contributors", and 8 locales (ar, fr-FR, hi-IN, id-ID, ja-JP, pl-PL, pt-BR, ru-RU) still say "Contributors". Same for code.binary_rendering_warning in id-ID. Five more locales (az-AZ, bn-IN, kn-IN, te-IN, tr-TR) were translated after that change and also just say "Contributors".
ar-EG and tr-TR account for 76 of the 104 (profile page, privacy policy, a11y page, compare, trends, translation status).
Some may be fine as written, e.g. es says "us" for "{some} of us", and tr-TR writes "npmx" where English has {app}. A native speaker can tell. package.maintainers.maintainer_template in ar-EG and it-IT uses a literal ~ instead of the {char126} slot, which renders the same.

Full list

about.contributors.title: ar, az-AZ, bn-IN, fr-FR, hi-IN, id-ID, ja-JP, kn-IN, pl-PL, pt-BR, ru-RU, te-IN, tr-TR
code.binary_rendering_warning: ar-EG, es, id-ID, pt-BR
vacations.subtitle: bn-IN, es, id-ID
profile.not_found_message: ar-EG, tr-TR
package.versions.copy_alt.general_description: ar-EG, hu-HU
package.maintainers.maintainer_template: ar-EG, it-IT
compare.file_filter_option.all: ar-EG, tr-TR
compare.file_filter_option.added: ar-EG, tr-TR
compare.file_filter_option.removed: ar-EG, tr-TR
compare.file_filter_option.modified: ar-EG, tr-TR
compare.no_files_search: ar-EG, tr-TR
compare.no_files_filtered: ar-EG, tr-TR
shortcuts.disable_shortcuts: de, tr-TR
about.what_we_are.admin_description: ro-RO, tr-TR
account_menu.ops: tr-TR, zh-TW
compare.scatter_chart.copy_alt.description: zh-CN, zh-TW

ar-EG only

blog.author.view_profile
blog.atproto.more_replies
profile.invite.compose_text
package.card.select_maximum
package.versions.distribution_range_date_same_year
package.versions.distribution_range_date_multiple_years
package.versions.copy_alt.per_version_analysis
package.versions.no_match_filter
package.trends.known_anomalies_range
package.trends.copy_alt.analysis
package.trends.copy_alt.compare
package.trends.copy_alt.single_package
package.trends.copy_alt.general_description
package.trends.copy_alt.facet_bar_general_description
package.trends.copy_alt.facet_bar_analysis
claim.modal.missing_permission
header.pr
compare.facets.select_all_category_facets
compare.facets.deselect_all_category_facets
compare.facets.selected_all_category_facets
compare.facets.deselected_all_category_facets
compare.version_invalid_url_format.hint
pds.community.description
pds.community.view_profile
pds.community.new_accounts
translation_status.welcome
translation_status.p1
translation_status.p2
translation_status.progress_label
translation_status.table.file_link
action_bar.shortcut
brand.guidelines.message

tr-TR only

filters.more_keywords
filters.remove_filter
filters.pagination.per_page
about.what_we_are.description
about.what_we_are_not.package_managers_exist
about.contributors.view_profile
auth.modal.atmosphere_explanation
compare.selector.packages_selected
compare.no_dependency.tooltip_description
privacy_policy.welcome
privacy_policy.cookies.types.p1
privacy_policy.cookies.types.li1
privacy_policy.cookies.types.li2
privacy_policy.cookies.local_storage.p1
privacy_policy.cookies.local_storage.p2
privacy_policy.cookies.management.p1
privacy_policy.analytics.p1
privacy_policy.authenticated.p1
privacy_policy.authenticated.p2
privacy_policy.contact.p1
a11y.welcome
a11y.approach.p2
a11y.contact.p1

Other single-locale

search.instant_search_advisory: de-AT
package.versions.filter_tooltip: es
package.stats.size_tooltip.total: nl

I can also open a tracking issue for these if that's easier for pinging translators.

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20 translations use placeholder names that the code never passes, values are blank #3310

fix(i18n): 20 translations use placeholder names that the code never passes, values are blank

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20 translations use placeholder names that the code never passes, values are blank #3310

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fix(i18n): 20 translations use placeholder names that the code never passes, values are blank

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owgreen-dev commented on Oct 8, 2026

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