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feat(packet): five more languages, and right-to-left support for Arabic
The packet now ships in 9 of the app's 11 locales: en es fr pt de it ro ru ar.
Each carries all 21 translatable keys — page furniture, the twelve prayer points
with sub-headings, the eleven rhythms, both Metacamp attributions, the privacy
note. point4_passage (Mark 5:1-20 in full) stays omitted in every non-en block
and falls back to the licensed English WEB text with its credit, for the reason
already recorded: translating scripture here would put unlicensed, unverified
Bible text into a printed prayer packet.

RTL IS NOW REAL, not assumed. The renderer emits dir on <html> from an RTL
locale set. Without it an Arabic packet renders readable glyphs LEFT-aligned —
which looks like a styling quirk rather than a bug, and no assertion noticed.

★ TWO BIDI FINDINGS, both from reading the render rather than the code:

1. Scripture references are LTR runs inside RTL paragraphs, and the bidi
   algorithm REORDERS a run that starts with a digit: "1 Peter 5:6-11" rendered
   as "Peter 5:6-11 1". Each reference is now dir="ltr" + unicode-bidi:isolate.
2. With isolation, the reference LIST reads right-to-left on an RTL page (first
   item rightmost). That is correct for an RTL reader, not a defect — recorded
   in _meta so nobody "fixes" it. English source order is unchanged, asserted.

★ HINDI IS DELIBERATELY NOT ADDED. Rendering each script at 48px and READING THE
PIXELS: Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic and CJK all shape correctly in the packet's
Georgia/serif stack; DEVANAGARI RENDERS AS TOFU BOXES, because this box has zero
Devanagari fonts (fc-list). A hi block would ship a page of empty rectangles. It
is blocked on vendoring a Devanagari font into public/assets/fonts, which is its
own piece of work.

⚠ THE MEASUREMENT THAT LIED. My first test compared rendered text advance against
a missing-font baseline and reported ar and zh BROKEN and hi FINE — the exact
opposite of the truth, because Devanagari tofu boxes happen to match real glyph
advance. One screenshot settled in a glance what two rounds of clever
arithmetic got backwards. Recorded in _meta.

Verified at the rendered layer in all nine languages: 8 sheets -> 8 letter
portrait pages, 95 people cards, 12 wheel segments, map painted, zero
overflowing sheets, 19 strings differing from English per locale. The Arabic
prayer-points page was read as a picture, not just asserted on.
2026-09-24 03:50:35 +00:00
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card-render.js feat(upg-100): the prayer card deck prints as CARDS, not as paper 2026-09-24 02:56:20 +00:00
packet-render.js feat(packet): five more languages, and right-to-left support for Arabic 2026-09-24 03:50:35 +00:00
poster-raster.js feat(posters): generate the poster in the browser when none is shipped 2026-09-24 03:05:17 +00:00
qr.js feat(upg-100): the prayer card deck prints as CARDS, not as paper 2026-09-24 02:56:20 +00:00