Oct 12, 2026

Verifying your locale

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Localization — part 4 of 6

Key parity against English (empty arrays = complete):

ruby -ryaml -e '
def keys(h, p = ""); h.flat_map { |k, v| v.is_a?(Hash) ? keys(v, "#{p}#{k}.") : ["#{p}#{k}"] }; end
en = keys(YAML.load_file("locales/en.yml")); xx = keys(YAML.load_file("locales/de.yml"))
p missing: en - xx, extra: xx - en'

Then see it live: set site.lang: <lang> in config/site.yml, and

ruby build/build_blog.rb        # the site side
./blog.sh preview                # read a post page, /search/, /markdown/, /404.html
./blog.sh help                   # the CLI side
./blog.sh                        # the wizard menu
./blog.sh doctor                 # and check, stats, export -- the reporting sections
./import.sh --help

A placeholder typo shows up immediately as a literal %{...} in the output -- worth grepping the rendered public.nosync/ for %{ before submitting.

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