I18n

Skill Syo-M/fable-frontend-skills/.claude/skills/i18n

Measured, opinionated Claude Code rules for frontend work (React / Next.js / Vite / Astro) — skills, path rules, review agents, sign-off hooks, installer & plugin. Every claim backed by committed eval reports.

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npx -y skills add Syo-M/fable-frontend-skills --skill i18n

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Internationalization and localization — message catalogs, ICU plurals/interpolation, Intl formatting, locale routing, RTL, locale-aware input validation. Use when adding or fixing translations, multi-locale UI, date/number/currency formatting, language switching, or RTL support. 日本語の依頼例:「多言語対応」「i18n入れて」「翻訳」「ロケール切り替え」「日付/通貨の表示」「RTL対応」「言語切替」。

SKILL.md

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Internationalization

No hardcoded user-facing strings

Every user-visible string comes from a message catalog keyed by ID — never a literal in JSX. This is the one rule that, if skipped, makes everything else impossible to retrofit.
Use the framework-idiomatic library: next-intl (Next.js App Router), react-i18next / react-intl (Vite SPA), Astro's i18n routing + a catalog. One per repo (dependency ask-first rule applies).
Keys are semantic and namespaced (checkout.payment.submit), not the English text. Keep catalogs shallow (≤3 levels) and run a missing/orphaned-key check in CI (i18next-parser --fail-on-update, or the library's extractor) — wire it as a gate, don't rely on memory.
Translator-facing context: provide a description for ambiguous keys; never concatenate sentence fragments across keys (word order differs per language).

Plurals, gender, interpolation — ICU MessageFormat

Never build plurals with count === 1 ? 'item' : 'items' — many languages have 3–6 plural categories. Use ICU {count, plural, ...} and let the library + locale data decide.
Interpolate variables through the catalog ({name}), never via template-string concatenation around a translated fragment.
Rich/linked text: use the library's component interpolation (<Trans> / t.rich), not dangerouslySetInnerHTML on a translated string (see frontend-security).

Formatting — always `Intl`, never hand-rolled

Dates/times: Intl.DateTimeFormat with an explicit locale and time zone. Store/transport UTC; render in a deliberately chosen zone; label it when ambiguous (consistent with data-viz).
Numbers/currency/units/lists: Intl.NumberFormat (with style: 'currency' + currency code), Intl.ListFormat, Intl.RelativeTimeFormat. No manual thousands separators, decimal marks, or "3 days ago" strings — these differ per locale.
Currency: format with the data's currency, not the UI locale's; never assume $.

Routing & locale negotiation

Locale in the URL (/ja/... subpath, or domain) so pages are linkable, cacheable, and indexable — not only a cookie/header. Emit hreflang alternates and set <html lang> (and dir) per request.
Negotiate initial locale from the URL → stored preference → Accept-Language, with a sane default; let users switch explicitly and persist it.
SSR/RSC: load only the active locale's catalog on the server and pass it down; don't ship every language's messages to the client (bundle bloat). Code-split catalogs by locale/route.

RTL & layout

Drive direction from data: <html dir="rtl"> for RTL locales; never hardcode LTR assumptions.
Use CSS logical properties (margin-inline, inset-inline-start, text-align: start) — mandated already by css-modules, and the reason it's mandated. Physical left/right breaks RTL.
Mirror directional icons (arrows, chevrons) in RTL; don't mirror logos or media. Test one RTL locale (e.g. ar) as a first-class case, plus a pseudo-locale for length/encoding.

Locale-aware input & validation

Accept locale-formatted input (decimal comma, native digits, local date order) and parse to a canonical form before validating with zod (see frontend-security) — validate the parsed value, store canonical.
Names/addresses/phone: don't assume Western structure (first/last, state/ZIP). Keep fields permissive; avoid regex that rejects valid non-Latin input.
Sorting/search: locale-aware collation (Intl.Collator), not byte order.

Testing

Pseudo-localization (accented + padded strings) in a story/build catches truncation, clipping, and hardcoded strings early (pairs with visual-regression over both LTR and one RTL locale).
Stories cover at least one non-English and one RTL locale for layout-sensitive components (see storybook).