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Chris Sherwood
ee203df485 fix(translate): download every released language, and list them in the docs
fetch_models.py sorted versions with float(), and Firefox Remote Settings
now publishes Nightly pre-releases ("1.0a1") alongside each release. The
first one crashed the whole fetch, so adding Swedish, or 21 of the 34 named
languages, silently did nothing and the button never appeared.

Only take records desktop Firefox would use on the release channel, pick
the newest complete version per direction instead of mixing files across
versions, support pairs that publish a separate source and target vocab
(Japanese), and keep one failing language from stopping the rest.

That opens 50 languages, up from the ~40 the docs claimed, including
Arabic, Japanese, Korean and Thai, which the docs said were unavailable.
All 50 downloaded, loaded and translated on the bergamot 0.4.5 engine in
the shipped image (NOMAD3). Chinese stays out: it is published as
zh-Hans/zh-Hant, which the proxy's two-letter codes cannot carry yet.

Translated pages now send Cache-Control: no-cache and put the installed
language set in the ETag. Kiwix's max-age=3600 kept the old language bar
for up to an hour after a language was added, and a normal refresh does
not reach the article frame.

Docs: step-by-step instructions and the full code table in the Supply
Depot section; sizes corrected to 45-140 MB per language.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-05 14:19:27 -07:00
Chris Sherwood
eef5b6cd37 fix(translate): forward upstream redirects instead of following them
urlopen() follows redirects silently. Kiwix answers a book root such as
/content/<book> with a 302 to the ZIM's main page, so the proxy served
that page's HTML at the original, shallower URL. Every relative link and
stylesheet then resolved one directory too high: the page lost its
styling and every article link 404'd (e.g. atenolol/ -> /content/atenolol/).
Kiwix's /random is a 302 too and broke the same way.

Use an opener that returns 3xx to the browser like any other non-200
response, and keep an absolute Location on this origin rather than the
upstream container name.

Bumps the catalog image to 0.1.1.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-05 14:19:27 -07:00
chriscrosstalk
1b67a87254 feat(translate): offline translation for the Information Library (#1292)
* feat(translate): offline translation for the Information Library

Implements #1272. Ships as a Supply Depot app so users who do not need
translation never see it.

A path-preserving reverse proxy in front of kiwix-serve. /viewer, /skin/*,
/search, /random and /catalog/* are forwarded byte for byte; only text/html
under /content/ is rewritten. Preserving the path is the whole design:
viewer.js keeps the content iframe in sync with location.hash by comparing
contentWindow.location.pathname, so moving the path starts the ping-pong its
own comment warns about and forces us to patch Kiwix's JavaScript on every
Kiwix bump. Because the path never moves, no Kiwix JS is modified, and Kiwix's
header, search, library and random keep working because they are Kiwix.
Language is a cookie, so links inside the ZIM need no rewriting either.

Bergamot rather than the AI Assistant: measured on the same box and the same
passage, 12,818 words/s on CPU against llama3.1:8b at 8 words/s on an RTX 5060.
It is also more careful with names, where the LLM translated the product name
and a smaller model hallucinated a clause. No GPU, so it works on CPU-only
boxes where the LLM path is unusable.

Models come from Firefox Remote Settings, the endpoint Firefox itself uses,
not the mozilla/firefox-translations-models repo, which was archived on
2026-08-21. MPL-2.0, about 37 MB per direction.

Failure handling is deliberate throughout: a failed model fetch is non-fatal, a
translation error returns the original article with a comment rather than an
error page, and a box with no models still starts and still forwards the
library. Translation being unavailable must never make the Information Library
unreachable.

amd64 only, and pinned as such in the build workflow. Bergamot's intgemm
backend is x86 specific and there is no aarch64 wheel, so a multi-arch build
would produce an ARM image that pulls cleanly and dies at start.

Also adds .gitattributes pinning *.sh to LF. The repo stores LF but Windows
checks out CRLF, and a CRLF after a shebang makes the interpreter
unresolvable inside the image. CI builds on Linux so this never bit, but it
breaks a local image build and would have bitten the existing sidecar script
too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01F8Mgg1vd2eKSs8StZiuyMV

* fix(translate): vary the cache on the language cookie

Found by clicking the language buttons in a browser rather than trusting curl.

Kiwix sends ETag and Cache-Control: max-age=3600, and the proxy forwarded both
unchanged on a response whose content now varies by cookie. The browser cached
the English article for an hour and served it straight back when the reader
picked a language, so the feature looked like it simply did not work. A shared
cache would have been worse, serving one reader's language to another.

Translatable responses now send Vary: Cookie, and their ETag is namespaced by
language so revalidation still works per language rather than being turned off.
Forwarded paths are untouched, so /viewer, /skin/* and /catalog/* stay byte for
byte identical to Kiwix.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01F8Mgg1vd2eKSs8StZiuyMV

* fix(translate): move off port 8480, which Vaultwarden already uses

Caught by seeing the two cards side by side in Supply Depot with the same port.

My port survey grepped ui_location for a bare number, and Vaultwarden's is
'https:8480' because it needs an https Open link, so it did not match and 8480
looked free. Moved to 8460, which fits the existing spacing between Meshtastic
Web on 8450 and Homebox on 8470.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01F8Mgg1vd2eKSs8StZiuyMV

* fix(translate): pin the base image to python 3.10

The build fails outright on 3.12: bergamot publishes no wheel for it and pip
resolves no further than 0.1.2. The spike used 3.10 for this reason and I had
modernised it without checking. Caught by building the image rather than
reading it.

Moving off this pin means moving off the 2022 PyPI wheel to a build from
mozilla/translations, which is the follow-up already noted in the Dockerfile.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01F8Mgg1vd2eKSs8StZiuyMV

* fix(translate): translate text that lives in a bare div

Sotoki-generated StackExchange ZIMs put every question excerpt in a
<div class="...excerpt">, so on a questions list the titles translated and the
descriptions underneath them did not. Reported against the ham radio ZIM.

div could not simply be added to BLOCK_TAGS: the outermost-block rule would
claim a top-level layout wrapper and send the whole page as one job. It is now
claimed speculatively and abandoned the moment anything block-level opens
inside it, so a wrapper yields to the blocks it contains and only a genuine
text leaf is translated.

Also moves the test harness's reporting block back to the end of the file. New
checks had been appended after it, so they executed but their failures were
never reported: verified that removing div from the set now fails 3 checks,
where before it reported success.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01F8Mgg1vd2eKSs8StZiuyMV

* fix(translate): decode numeric character references before translating

Bergamot's HTML mode decodes named entities (`&amp;` arrives as "&") but not
numeric ones. It treats `&#x27;` as literal text and escapes the ampersand on
the way out, so "If I&#x27;m in the wilderness" came back as
"Si I&amp;#x27;m dans la nature" and rendered the escape sequence visibly to
the user. Confirmed by round-tripping fragments through the model directly.

Numeric refs are now decoded before the round trip. `&`, `<` and `>` are
deliberately left encoded: decoding those would inject real markup into the
fragment and fail the balance check that gates HTML mode, dropping the block to
plain text and losing its inline links.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01F8Mgg1vd2eKSs8StZiuyMV

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 15:54:41 -07:00