The gate caught what I shipped: rendering the Tibet packet at PACKET_LANG=ar failed with "the funnel page
carries Latin-script prose in a ar packet: 'This packet is', 'UPG-', 'lists … How each number is reached'".
Exactly right — my new strings were English-only, and two of them PRINT on a page whose siblings
(funnel_title, funnel_intro, funnel_people) are fully translated. English text on an otherwise Arabic page
is not a graceful fallback, it is a half-translated page.
So all 17 new keys are now genuinely translated across es fr pt de it ro ru ar hi zh — 150 values — and
DECLARED_ABSENT is back to its original two entries (the Mark 5 passage and its credit). The declaration
mechanism was the right call while they were untranslated and the wrong place to leave them.
⚠ 'UPG-' IS ALLOWLISTED, AND THE ORDER MATTERS. It is the Latin run left by "UPG-100", the product name every
locale keeps verbatim — the same reason 'Project' is already in LATIN_OK. But it is allowed only AFTER the
real translations landed: an allowlist entry added when the failure first appeared would have silenced the
gate on fifteen genuinely untranslated strings. The allowlist is for names, not for work not yet done.
VERIFIED at the rendered layer in BOTH locales: en and ar each PASS with 9 sheets, map painted, content
intact. The Arabic packet carries its life-calendar title, christian-share title, both legend labels, the
three prayer columns and the "1 of 28" tip in Arabic, with 2 grids and 32 shaded cells — the same numbers as
the English one, which is the point: the arithmetic is language-independent and only the words change.
check:packet-strings-parity PASS.
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