Read the French catalog end to end: one word per term, and one answer on its typography
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<p>yoyaku.fr.po carries 1,948 translated strings, drafted one at a time as each feature landed, and nothing had ever read the catalog end to end. One of them turned out to call the settlement cron pass a <em>balayage</em>, a word-for-word calque of "sweep" that no French speaker would write for a periodic job. It was fixed in <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/yoyaku/issues/3619722">#3619722</a> only because somebody happened to read that one description.</p>
<p>All 2,003 entries have now been read against their msgids. <strong>189 msgstrs changed and no msgid did</strong>, so nothing in the code moved and the completeness check stayed green throughout.</p>
<h3>Six terminology splits</h3>
<p>One English word had become two French ones, in each case invisible to every check the project runs.</p>
<ul>
<li>11 strings still called a slot a <em>séance</em>, the event sense #3619722 retired from the English, including the unique-constraint message an operator reads on a duplicate tariff row.</li>
<li>24 called a place grade a <em>catégorie</em>, while the entity itself is a <em>grade de place</em>.</li>
<li>16 called a tenant a <em>locataire</em>, against 50 that said <em>tenant</em>, which is what Orchestra says too.</li>
<li>Workflow was written three ways: <em>flux de travail</em>, a bare <em>flux</em>, and <em>workflow</em>. Orchestra, the engine that owns the word, keeps <em>workflow</em> throughout its own catalog and has no <em>flux de travail</em> at all.</li>
<li><em>section</em> and <em>area</em> had both become <em>zone</em>. That is what a term collision costs: "An area with no setting follows its section" read <em>une zone sans réglage suit ce que dit la zone elle-même</em>, which says nothing.</li>
<li>Settlement was <em>règlement</em> and <em>régler</em>, which is what a French reader pays a bill with, in a catalog that is careful never to describe a booking in money words.</li>
</ul>
<p>Plus booker rendered as <em>visiteur</em> in six strings, operator as <em>exploitant</em> in two, a seat row as <em>rangée</em> in four, and parked as <em>positionné</em> where Orchestra says <em>en attente</em>.</p>
<h3>Sentences that were simply wrong</h3>
<ul>
<li>Four said <em>cliquez une place</em>. The verb takes <em>sur</em>.</li>
<li><em>quelles qu'il choisisse</em> is not a sentence, and "Pinned to this allotment" read <em>contingentées pour ce contingent</em>.</li>
<li>"Color used to render the grade on the place map" named <em>le groupe de places</em>, and "Claimed from the guarantee" named <em>la carte enregistrée</em> while the string above it named the guarantee.</li>
<li>"Attempts allowed per window; below 1 switches the limit off" had lost its second clause entirely.</li>
<li>The slot number carried U+00BA, the Spanish and Portuguese ordinal, rather than the degree sign.</li>
</ul>
<h3>The two things a script could count</h3>
<p>Both decided once for the whole catalog rather than per string. The apostrophe is U+2019 throughout, 756 converted. The space before a colon, semicolon, exclamation or question mark is U+00A0, as is the space inside a pair of French quotation marks, 437 inserted. U+00A0 rather than the narrow U+202F because colons are roughly three quarters of the sites, and the colon is the mark French typography gives a word space rather than a fine one; and because one character for all four means one grep finds every exception rather than four.</p>
<h3>Written down rather than remembered</h3>
<p>docs/translation.md gains a section holding the terminology table and both typographic rules, with the two one-line greps that check them, so the next reading starts from the answers instead of re-deriving them. The fifteen French terms that page names join <em>catégorie</em> in the cspell project dictionary.</p>
<h3>Found while reading, left alone here</h3>
<ul>
<li><code>msgid "New labels"</code> is in the catalog and described in docs/venue-map.md, but no <code>t()</code> call emits it: MapLayoutBuilder only ever writes <code>t('Labels')</code>. Removing a string is out of scope for this issue.</li>
<li>The venue-package warning names areas and zones as two things on the English side, "the layout (areas, grades, places, zones and default modes)", which reads like a slip. Changing it is a msgid change.</li>
</ul>
<p>AI-Generated: Yes (Claude Code read the catalog, wrote the changes on the merge request and drafted this summary. I reviewed them before posting.)</p>
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