TWO DEFECTS FROM THE UNIVERSAL-PROPS MATRIX, and they are the same defect at two
levels: a component can be perfectly localized and still show English, and a
page can be perfectly translated and still be laid out backwards.
★ THE HEADER HAD NO i18n AT ALL. Every label at the top of Big Picture was an
English literal passed as a PROP — FilterDropdown translates nothing, it renders
what the caller hands it — so Region, Bloc, People Group and Religion sat in
English above an Arabic page. They now read the catalogue, grid namespace first
because this header drives the cap-2 grid and its sibling reads the same keys.
Reset uses controls.reset_all, so its English becomes "Reset all": an existing
entry rather than invented wording, and arguably more accurate, since it clears
the search too.
Its search placeholder and two aria-labels have no usable entry — the nearest,
grid.search, drops "or countries", which this search actually covers — so they
are on the DECIDE card rather than quietly reworded. They are invisible to
check:composite-locale-leaks by design: its criterion is that the catalogue
already holds the string, and it does not.
★ RTL IS A DIRECTION, NOT A TRANSLATION. createAppI18n reflects an RTL locale
onto document.documentElement, which is right for a leaf page it owns and
useless for an element dropped into somebody else's page — the case these
composites exist for. A host asking for Arabic got Arabic WORDS in a
left-to-right layout: readable glyphs in the wrong place, which reads as a
styling quirk rather than the bug it is.
Both composites now set `dir` on their custom-element HOST rather than on the
layout inside it, and that choice is the fix: `dir` takes effect through the
inherited CSS `direction`, and inheritance crosses shadow boundaries, so one
attribute covers the composite's own chrome AND every nested element beneath it
— including the grid half the audit found bare. Only ever SET, never cleared: a
host page that declares its own dir owns that decision.
VERIFIED HEADLESS: three bundles build; setAttribute("dir","rtl") is present in
both composites and controls.reset_all in big-picture; freshness and SRI clean,
nothing else stale; gates:pre 6/6. NEEDS EYES: Big Picture and Simple Research
at ?lang=ar — header labels in Arabic, and the layout actually mirrored.
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