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Some user-facing English lived outside React components, where the hardcoded-string checker does not look. This PR moves it into common.json:

Where Text Shown in Key
formatErrorMessage "Unknown error" instance card toasts, instance error display errors.unknown
api.ts extractErrorData (:513) "HTTP error! status: {{status}}" toasts, when the error body is empty errors.httpStatus
api.ts ssoSafeFetch (:433) "Received an HTML response instead of JSON…" (kept as one key) toasts errors.ssoHtmlResponse
api.ts downloadTorrentFile (:1903) "Failed to download torrent file: {{status}}" torrent creation tasks toast errors.torrentFileDownloadFailed
useTitleBarSpeeds "D: … U: …" in the tab title browser tab titleBar.speeds
useTitleBarSpeeds "| Dashboard" in the tab title browser tab reuses the translated route title (nav.dashboard), no new key

Values are passed as parameters ({{status}}, {{download}}, {{upload}}), never glued on, so each language controls word order. English output is unchanged.

"D:" and "U:" are English abbreviations, not symbols, so they are translatable. Languages where a letter would not read as "download" use arrows (cs, ko, uk) or short words (zh-CN, zh-TW); fr uses R/E, ca B/P.

One message stays English on purpose. addTorrent (api.ts:1078) builds the same "HTTP error! status: N" text, but AddTorrentDialog.tsx:550 prefix-matches it to tell "the server sent no message" from a real one, and shows its own "check your input" hint instead. Translating it broke that guard in the ten non-English locales (users saw the raw status instead of the hint), so it is an English literal with a comment naming the matcher. api.addTorrentStatusPrefix.test.ts pins both ends: it sets i18next to French and checks the message still carries the English prefix, and it checks the dialog still matches on that prefix.

English lives in the locale files only. The api.ts strings call t() with no hardcoded English fallback. The app initialises i18n synchronously before api.ts runs, so the English comes from en/common.json.

Three existing test files, api.export, api.instances and api.torrents, each gain one line, import "@/i18n", under their msw server import. They assert English error text but never loaded @/i18n, so the uninitialised singleton returned undefined and the messages came out empty.

Structural changes:

  • formatErrorMessage moved from lib/utils.ts to lib/format-error-message.ts, to avoid pulling i18n into every component via cn(). Importing @/i18n in utils.ts broke 17 component test files that mock react-i18next (measured on 3d73e126). There is no re-export from utils.ts, which would bring the dependency back.
  • The move also drops the third if (!cleaned) guard in formatErrorMessage, which could never fire. Every prefix in the regex ends in a space and the input is trimmed first, so a match always leaves at least one character. Traced over 1280 inputs built from the four prefixes, with case variants, doubled prefixes and all 16 whitespace code points trim() strips: 0 hits.
  • api.ts imports the i18next singleton, not @/i18n. Importing @/i18n there splits the English namespaces out of the entry chunk.

Translations: all non-English values (4 keys × 10 locales) are best-effort machine translations. "Unknown error" reuses each locale's existing wording from crossseed/torrents.

Not addressed here: addTorrent reads the body with json() and then text() on the same response, so a non-JSON error body (e.g. a reverse proxy's error page) falls back to the generic status message. qui's own errors are JSON and unaffected.

How has this been tested?

Live, with go build of this branch serving the production bundle, auth disabled, and a synthetic qbittorrent-nox instance. The tab title with title-bar speeds turned on, read from document.title:

Language Page Title
en dashboard D: 0 B/s U: 0 B/s | Dashboard (same as before)
en instance D: 0 B/s U: 0 B/s | Synthetic qBittorrent (same as before)
zh-CN dashboard 下载:0 B/s 上传:0 B/s | 仪表盘
uk instance ↓ 0 B/s ↑ 0 B/s | Synthetic qBittorrent
fr dashboard R : 0 B/s E : 0 B/s | Tableau de bord

The error strings were not triggered live. New tests:

  • api.errorMessages.test.ts: the SSO and torrent-download messages, resolved from the locale. It was first written as api.i18nFallbacks.test.ts to cover the English fallbacks; once those were removed, the old name no longer described it.
  • api.addTorrentStatusPrefix.test.ts: the addTorrent prefix coupling described above.
  • format-error-message.test.ts: empty input, prefix stripping, capitalisation, and a bare prefix.

Each test was mutation-checked. Each change below was made to the code and made a test fail:

  • translating api.ts:1078 again;
  • changing the dialog's prefix;
  • a wrong SSO key, and a wrong download key;
  • dropping the status parameter;
  • removing import "@/i18n" from api.export's test;
  • disabling prefix stripping.

Checks on this head (03591786): pnpm lint OK, pnpm check:i18n OK, full vitest 143/143 files and 1348/1348 tests. No Go files changed.

Performance

Risk: new imports can change the bundle graph, and one did in an earlier version of this change. Measured pnpm build on this PR's merge-base with develop (110b1281) and on this branch (03591786), same container (node:24). Counted the JS the first load fetches (the entry script plus modulepreload links in dist/index.html). Compressed size is from the command-line gzip -9:

Initial JS files Raw bytes gzip -9 bytes
merge-base 110b1281 7 3,122,165 800,439
this PR 03591786 7 3,122,411 800,891
diff 0 +246 +452

Other compressors give a different delta: moving formatErrorMessage shifts code between two chunks that both load initially, and compressors weigh that differently.

The added bytes are the new keys in the eagerly bundled English common.json. Runtime cost: one t() lookup per error, and one per title update (the effect already ran on every speed change). No new requests, renders or effects. Conclusion: no regression.

Checklist

  • My PR title follows the Conventional Commits format (it becomes the squashed commit message)
  • If this changes the database schema, I have added migrations for both SQLite and PostgreSQL (no schema change)
  • I completed the mandatory performance checks and recorded the outcome in Performance

AI disclosure

Yes. Claude Code (Claude Opus 5 and Opus 5.5) wrote the code, the tests and all non-English translations. Colin Hebert directed the work.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Title-bar download and upload speeds now use translated labels.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Error messages for HTTP failures, SSO responses, and torrent downloads are now displayed in the selected language.
    • Error messages are formatted more consistently, including when handling empty or whitespace-only details.

Move user-facing English out of non-React modules into common.json:
- formatErrorMessage "Unknown error" (errors.unknown)
- api.ts HTTP status fallback, SSO HTML-response message and torrent
  file download failure (errors.httpStatus, errors.ssoHtmlResponse,
  errors.torrentFileDownloadFailed)
- document.title speeds (titleBar.speeds); the dashboard suffix reuses
  the translated route title

formatErrorMessage moves to lib/format-error-message.ts so utils.ts,
imported by nearly every component through cn(), does not pull in i18n.
api.ts imports the i18next singleton rather than @/i18n, which would
split the English namespaces out of the entry chunk; each string keeps
an English fallback because t() returns undefined before init.

Non-English values are best-effort machine translations.
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The web application now uses translations for title-bar speed text and selected API error messages. The formatErrorMessage helper is moved from utils.ts to a dedicated module, and instance components import it from that module.

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Localization and error handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Localized title-bar speeds
web/src/hooks/useTitleBarSpeeds.ts, web/src/i18n/locales/*/common.json
The title hook builds speed text with the titleBar.speeds translation. Locale files provide the download and upload template.
Localized API errors
web/src/lib/api.ts, web/src/i18n/locales/*/common.json, web/src/lib/__tests__/*
Selected API errors use translated messages. The add-torrent HTTP status fallback remains English. Tests cover API error messages and the add-torrent prefix.
Dedicated error-formatting module
web/src/lib/utils.ts, web/src/lib/format-error-message.ts, web/src/lib/format-error-message.test.ts, web/src/components/instances/*
formatErrorMessage is removed from utils.ts. Instance components import it from the dedicated module, and tests cover its formatting behavior.

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AddTorrentDialog.tsx:550 suppresses the raw status by prefix-matching
"HTTP error! status:". Translating that message at api.ts:1076 broke the
guard in the ten non-English locales: instead of the "check your input"
hint, users saw the raw status. The message stays English, with a comment
naming the matcher, and a test pins both ends of the coupling.

Also drops the third `if (!cleaned)` branch in formatErrorMessage, which
cannot fire: every prefix in the regex ends in a space and `normalized`
is trimmed, so a match always leaves at least one character. Traced over
1280 inputs built from the four prefixes with case variants, doubled
prefixes and all 16 whitespace code points trim() strips: 0 hits.

New tests cover the English `??` fallbacks at api.ts:432 and :1894 without
importing @/i18n, and formatErrorMessage's prefix stripping. Each guard was
mutation-tested: translating :1076, dropping either fallback, changing the
dialog prefix and disabling prefix stripping each fail a test.
Drops the hardcoded `?? "English"` fallbacks at the SSO, HTTP-status and
torrent-download messages. The app initialises i18n synchronously before
api.ts runs, so they never fired there; English lives in en/common.json.

Three existing api tests (export, instances, torrents) passed only because
those fallbacks fired: they never loaded "@/i18n", so the singleton was
uninitialised. Each now imports "@/i18n" directly under its msw server
import. api.i18nFallbacks.test.ts becomes api.errorMessages.test.ts and
checks the messages resolved from the locale.

api.ts:1076 is unchanged: an English literal on purpose, documented in place,
because AddTorrentDialog.tsx:550 prefix-matches it.
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