dataiku / dataiku/kiji-proxy

[Epic] Internationalize the frontend app (i18n)

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Since Jun 30, 2026.

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Description

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.

Sub-tasks

  • #571 — set up i18next infrastructure
  • #572 — extract strings: core UI
  • #573 — extract strings: settings
  • #574 — extract strings: dashboard & sidebar
  • #575 — extract strings: activity & mappings
  • #576 — extract strings: onboarding, about & modals
  • #577 — language selector + persistence
  • #578 — translate Electron main-process menus
  • #579 — tooling, drafts & CI guardrails

Rollout phases

  1. P1 — infra + full English extraction (no visible change; #571–#576)
  2. P2 — language selector + Spanish drafted end-to-end (#577, partial #579)
  3. P3 — French + Japanese drafts, Electron menus, CJK/layout pass, CI key-parity check (#578, #579)

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