bal-electrum-plugin/PLAN_I18N.md

PLAN_I18N — Italian translation of the BAL Electrum plugin (i18n)

Status: DRAFT. Every phase still needs the owner's explicit "OK" before any code is written (HANDOFF.md, rule R4). Prepared: 2026-09-25, from a read-only analysis (no code was changed). Owner's decisions recorded on 2026-09-26 (section 6). Code base analysed: bal-electrum-plugin main @ 4a33116 (2026-09-19, manifest 0.7.0) and Electrum 4.8.0. Line numbers refer to that commit. After merging a newer main, find the code by content.

0. Read this first

1. Read HANDOFF.md (rules R1–R4, ZIP-FIRST, CREDIT-SAVING) and AGENTS.md (venvs, tests). They still apply.
2. One exception to HANDOFF.md. Section 5 ("Git / delivery workflow") and section 7, step 7, say: work directly on main, push to origin/main, run make-release.sh. That does NOT apply to this task. See section 3 (dedicated branch).
3. The owner's decisions (D1–D7) are recorded in section 6. For anything not covered there, ask the owner (rule R3).

1. Goal and scope

Goal: when Electrum is set to Italian, the whole BAL interface appears in Italian. The mechanism must allow adding more languages later just by adding one .po file.

In scope

• The Qt GUI of the plugin (bal/gui/qt/) and the GUI-free strings it displays (bal/core/).
• One language for now: Italian (it_IT).

Out of scope (owner's decisions, or by design)

• BAL Easy Heirs: excluded by the owner.
• CLI output (bal/cli/): stays English, exactly like Electrum (run_electrum: "the CLI is intentionally always non-localized").
• bal/wallet_util/ (standalone helper scripts), the Android reader (android/, which uses Android resources), the manual, the website and the docs.
• Other languages: later. The infrastructure will support them.

2. Background (verified)

2.1 How Electrum 4.8.0 does it

• gettext with one domain, electrum. Catalogs live in electrum/locale/locale/<lang>/LC_MESSAGES/electrum.mo (electrum/i18n.py, LOCALE_DIR). Every string goes through electrum.i18n._().
• The language is set once, at startup, for the GUI only (run_electrum L433–451):
  • it uses config.LOCALIZATION_LANGUAGE (config key language);
  • if that is empty, it uses electrum.gui.default_lang.get_default_language(gui_name), i.e. QLocale.system().name(), but only if that value is in electrum.i18n.languages; otherwise en_UK;
  • en_* means no translation (the English source strings are shown);
  • changing the language requires a restart.
• Strings evaluated too early stay English. Anything evaluated before set_language() (for example at import time) is not translated.
• Safety check inside _(). The decorator _ensure_translation_keeps_format_string_syntax_similar rejects a translation whose {} fields differ from the source. _("") returns "". There is an optional context= argument (pgettext).
• Coding rules (comments in i18n.py): no f-strings inside _(), no % formatting; write _("… {}").format(x). There are no plural forms (ngettext is not used anywhere).
• Pipeline:
  1. contrib/locale/push_locale.py runs xgettext over electrum/**/*.py. This includes internal plugins.
  2. The strings go to Crowdin, where volunteers translate them.
  3. The .po files are stored in the electrum-locale repo.
  4. contrib/locale/build_locale.sh compiles them with msgfmt into .mo files and writes stats.json.
• Translation security:
  • electrum-locale/update.py refuses any translation whose msgstr contains a Bitcoin address, an e-mail address, a URL, or a long word mixing letters and digits;
  • llm_proofreader/ checks every translation PR for vandalism in CI.
• External plugins:
  • they are always ZIP files, imported with zipimport as electrum_external_plugins.<name>;
  • BasePlugin.read_file(filename) -> bytes reads a file from inside the ZIP, or from the internal plugin folder;
  • Electrum provides nothing for translating external plugins. Their strings are not in electrum.mo.
• i18n.py, gui/default_lang.py and read_file() are identical in 4.7.2, 4.8.0 and 4.8.2.
• Swiss locales (it_CH, de_CH, fr_CH) are not in Electrum's list, so Electrum starts in English until the user picks a language. BAL must simply follow Electrum and not detect the language itself. Otherwise the UI would be half in one language and half in another.

2.2 BAL today (main @ 4a33116)

• Source strings are in English. Most are wrapped in _, imported from electrum.i18n in these places:
  • gui/qt/common.py:55, which re-exports it to every gui/qt module;
  • gui/qt/theme.py:90,108;
  • core/will.py:32 and core/willexecutors.py:25;
  • cli/controller.py:29.
• The package has 483 _() calls in 11 files. xgettext finds 365 distinct strings (≈ 2,230 words).
• With Electrum set to Italian, only 39 of the 365 strings (≈ 11 %) appear in Italian. They are the generic words that Electrum already translates (Cancel, Save, Address…). Everything specific to BAL stays in English.
• Issues to fix before translating (exact locations are in the Appendix):
  • 14 f-strings or .format() calls inside _(): these strings can never be translated (Ruff INT001/INT002);
  • 15 _() calls with a non-literal argument: extraction tools cannot find the text;
  • 14 concatenations around _(): the word order breaks in other languages;
  • 18 _() calls evaluated at import time (in class bodies): they would stay English (see 4.2);
  • 2 × _(""): plain gettext returns the catalog header instead of an empty string;
  • 12 settings help texts (HelpButton("…")) and the help texts of 5 add_widget() calls are never translated (≈ 500 words in total);
  • other text shown to the user without _().
• Some stored data depends on the UI language.
  • WillItem.set_status() (core/will.py:1344) appends the translated status label to WillItem.status.
  • That field is saved via to_dict() in the wallet DB (wallet.db.get_dict("will"), gui/qt/window.py:232), in exported files and in QR transfers.
  • Real example from tests/samanta7: "New.Firmato.Pushed.Checked.Replaced". Electrum's Italian catalog already translates Signed, Error and Expired, so the saved history mixes languages today.
• Default texts in core/plugin_base.py exist only in English:
  • HISTORY_LABEL (around L246, token {willexecutor});
  • EVENT_DESCRIPTION and EVENT_SUMMARY (around L331–337, tokens $wallet_name and $heirs_complete).

3. Branch and workflow for this task

The owner decided, on Truman's suggestion, to do this work on a separate branch on Gitea, not on main.

• Branch: feature/i18n (proposed name, see D6), created from main.
• Never commit or push to main during this task.
• Never run make-release.sh from the branch: it tags and publishes a Gitea release. Build test ZIPs with python3 build_zip.py only.
• At the start of every phase:
  1. merge origin/main into feature/i18n;
  2. resolve any conflicts;
  3. run the tests again.
• Where conflicts are likely:
  • gui/qt/dialogs.py, window.py, lists.py, plugin.py, widgets.py and core/will.py: all were changed on main on 2026-09-04, 09-14 and 09-19, and commit fb88d75 alone changed ≈ 1,800 lines of dialogs.py;
  • CHANGELOG.md: both sides append at the end, so keep both entries and renumber.
• ZIP-FIRST for every phase:
  1. build the ZIP;
  2. the owner (and Truman) test it;
  3. only after the owner's explicit OK, commit on feature/i18n and push to origin/feature/i18n (who does this: see D3).
• Add one numbered CHANGELOG.md entry per phase, in English.
• Run ruff and the tests before every ZIP (HANDOFF.md). The known pre-existing test failures are listed in HANDOFF.md, section 7, step 3.
• At the end: open a Pull Request feature/i18n → main on Gitea (there is a precedent: feature/bal-qr-transfer). Release from main only after the merge.

4. Design (decided)

Chosen: a gettext catalog owned by BAL, domain bal, shipped inside the plugin ZIP, that follows Electrum's language and is consulted after Electrum's own catalog (D7).

Rejected:

• keep using electrum.i18n._: 89 % of the text stays English;
• Python dictionaries or JSON files: a home-made format with no tooling;
• Qt Linguist (.ts / .qm): Electrum desktop does not use it, and core/ has no Qt.

4.1 New module bal/i18n.py

Function	Behaviour
_(msg)	1. "" returns "". 2. Electrum first (D7): if electrum.i18n._(msg) differs from msg, return it (Electrum has already applied its own {} check). 3. Otherwise, if a BAL catalog is loaded and translates msg, apply the {} safety check and return the translation. The check uses the same logic as Electrum's decorator: copy it with an attribution comment (MIT); do not import Electrum's private function. 4. Otherwise return msg (English). The CLI and English behave exactly as in Electrum, because no BAL catalog is loaded there.
N_(msg)	Returns msg unchanged. It marks strings defined in tables, constants and class attributes, which are translated later with _() when displayed. Babel extracts N_ by default.
set_language(plugin, lang)	None, "" or en_*: no catalog. Otherwise read locale/<lang>/LC_MESSAGES/bal.mo with plugin.read_file(), falling back to locale/<lang[:2]>/…, and build gettext.GNUTranslations(io.BytesIO(data)). If the catalog is missing or broken, log at info level and continue in English. Never raise.
init_from_config(plugin, config)	lang = config.LOCALIZATION_LANGUAGE. If it is empty, use electrum.gui.default_lang.get_default_language(gui_name="qt"), guarding against ImportError as run_electrum does. Then call set_language().

• Why Electrum first (D7): BAL follows Electrum's wording wherever Electrum has it. If Electrum ever ships BAL as an internal plugin, Electrum's own translations (Crowdin) would be used automatically and the BAL catalog would only fill the gaps.
• Trade-off of D7: for a text that Electrum already translates, the BAL catalog cannot override Electrum's wording, not even with the D1 glossary. If one such case reads badly in BAL, handle that single case with the owner.
• A text that Electrum "translates" into the identical English text counts as not found and falls through to the BAL catalog. This is harmless: the BAL catalog is prefilled with Electrum's translations (3.3).
• Do not use gettext.translation(localedir=…). When pointed inside a ZIP it silently returns NullTranslations (verified).
• plugin.read_file() is the same API BAL already uses for its icons. It works both for the ZIP install and for the dev symlink install (AGENTS.md).
• The state is module-level and set once. Changing the language requires restarting Electrum, as in Electrum itself.

4.2 Where the language is set

• In bal/gui/qt/plugin.py, Plugin.__init__ (L67): call init_from_config(self, config) first.
• The CLI entry point (bal/cli/plugin.py) does not call it, so the CLI stays English.
• Consequence: gui/qt/plugin.py imports dialogs, widgets and window at module level (L49–51), and those import lists. So every class body is evaluated before Plugin.__init__ runs, and any _() evaluated at import time would stay English. The cases in Appendix D must be converted in Phase 2.

4.3 Files and tools

babel.cfg                               # extraction mapping (repo root)
bal/locale/bal.pot                      # template, generated
bal/locale/it_IT/LC_MESSAGES/bal.po     # Italian translations (source of truth)
bal/locale/it_IT/LC_MESSAGES/bal.mo     # compiled (see D4)

The tool is Babel (pip install babel). It is pure Python and works on Windows without GNU gettext. These commands were tested on this code base:

# babel.cfg
[ignore: bal/cli/**]
[ignore: bal/wallet_util/**]
[python: bal/**.py]

mkdir -p bal/locale                                                     # extract does not create it
pybabel extract -F babel.cfg --no-wrap -o bal/locale/bal.pot .
pybabel init    -i bal/locale/bal.pot -d bal/locale -D bal -l it_IT     # once
pybabel update  -i bal/locale/bal.pot -d bal/locale -D bal --no-wrap    # after each extract
pybabel compile -d bal/locale -D bal --statistics

• Today this extracts 323 strings (≈ 1,900 words) from the GUI and core.
• After Phase 2, expect about 360 strings (≈ 2,500 words).
• Poedit (free) can be used to translate or review the .po file by hand.

4.4 Translation safety (as in Electrum)

• Add a check script (for example scripts/check_translations.py) and run it before every ZIP. It must check that:

  • every .po file compiles;
  • the {} fields are identical to the source (the same rule as the runtime check);
  • the $tokens are identical ($wallet_name, $heirs_complete, …): Electrum does not check these;
  • no msgstr contains a Bitcoin address, an e-mail address, a URL or a long letter-and-digit word (use the regexes from electrum-locale/update.py), unless the same text is in the msgid.

  It must also print the counts of translated, untranslated and fuzzy strings.

• Never put addresses or URLs inside translatable strings; pass them with {}.

• The owner reviews every Italian string, especially the warnings about invalidation, locktime, fees and signing.

5. Phases

Each phase follows HANDOFF.md: DISCOVER → PLAN (owner's "OK") → EXECUTE → VERIFY → ZIP → test by the owner and Truman → commit on feature/i18n. Phases 1 and 2 change nothing visible, so they may be delivered as a single ZIP/test cycle (see D5).

Phase 1 — Infrastructure (no visible change)

• NEW bal/i18n.py (section 4.1), with docstrings explaining why (rule R2).
• bal/gui/qt/common.py:55: replace from electrum.i18n import _ with an import of _ and N_ from bal.i18n. Use a relative import, zip-safe like the existing from ...core… imports.
• bal/gui/qt/theme.py:90,108: change the local imports to bal.i18n.
• bal/core/will.py:32 and bal/core/willexecutors.py:25: import from bal.i18n.
• bal/cli/controller.py:29: unchanged (the CLI stays English by design).
• bal/gui/qt/plugin.py, Plugin.__init__: call init_from_config(self, config).
• NEW tests/test_i18n.py, covering:
  • the empty string;
  • Electrum's translation wins; the BAL catalog is used only when Electrum has none (D7);
  • rejection of a {} mismatch;
  • en_UK means no catalog;
  • a missing .mo does not crash;
  • a catalog loaded from bytes (use a small test catalog).
• Verify:
  • the existing tests (baseline as in HANDOFF.md, section 7);
  • tests/smoke_test.py;
  • build_zip.py followed by tests/external_zip_test.py;
  • manually on Windows 11 with Electrum 4.8.0, once in Italian and once in English: the UI must look exactly as before.

Phase 2 — String clean-up and language-neutral stored data (no visible change)

• 2.0 Merge origin/main first.
• 2.1 Appendix A: turn _(f"…") and _("…".format(x)) into _("… {}").format(x). Include cli/controller.py, for lint consistency only.
• 2.2 Appendix C: turn each concatenation into one string with {}.
  • Keep HTML outside the strings where possible, e.g. "<b>{}</b>".format(_("Support:")).
  • Fix the malformed _("<b>Willexecutor:</b:") (widgets.py:1366).
• 2.3 Appendix B: mark the literal with N_() where it is defined, or translate it at the call site.
  • The helpers add_widget() (common.py:180), get_window_title() (plugin.py:1085) and qlabel() (widgets.py:1319) need ONE rule: callers pass text that is already translated, and the helper does not call _() again.
  • Today window.py:290 translates twice.
• 2.4 Appendix D: replace class-level _() with N_() and translate when the text is displayed.
  • In lists.py, update_headers(self.__class__.headers) (L248, 647, 1094) must receive a translated copy.
  • For the wizard title / message (dialogs.py L380, 419–420, 527–528, 547–548), use _(self.title) and _(self.message) at L325 and L327.
• 2.5 Appendix E: replace _("") with "".
• 2.6 Appendix F and G: make the settings help texts and labels in plugin.py translatable.
• 2.7 Appendix H, plus a full sweep for any other text shown to the user.
• 2.8 Stored status (core/will.py:1344):
  • store the English label (mark the STATUS_DEFAULT labels with N_()); no _() at write time;
  • add a helper format_status_history(status) -> str that splits on ., translates the tokens that are known English labels (with an optional NOT prefix), and leaves unknown or legacy tokens unchanged (New, Firmato, …);
  • use it wherever the status is shown (lists.py:589, widgets.py:1336);
  • this stays backward compatible: existing wallets keep displaying correctly, and older BAL versions still read plain English;
  • test it with the real legacy strings in tests/samanta7.
• 2.9 Default texts (core/plugin_base.py: HISTORY_LABEL, EVENT_DESCRIPTION, EVENT_SUMMARY):
  • mark the English defaults with N_();
  • when the stored value is missing or equal to the English default, use the translated default at the moment the text is used (calendar export, history label);
  • the tokens must survive translation.
  • Changed during Phase 2 (safety): HISTORY_LABEL stays English and is not translatable. Util._label_matches_history() uses it to recognise BAL's own local transactions (stale-history cleanup, spendable UTXOs), so a label that changed with the GUI language would no longer match the transactions saved before. Only EVENT_SUMMARY and EVENT_DESCRIPTION follow the language (BalConfig(..., translatable=True)). The same rule applies to every stored or compared text (wallet labels, heirs.TRANSACTION_LABEL, the status history).
• 2.10 pyproject.toml: add "INT" to [tool.ruff.lint] select.
  • Ruff's hint suggests % formatting: do not follow it. Use .format(), which is Electrum's rule.
  • make-release.sh treats Ruff errors as blocking, so INT must end up clean.
• Verify:
  • Ruff INT is clean;
  • the extraction count is about 360 (compare with 4.3);
  • the tests pass, plus new tests for 2.8 and 2.9;
  • manually in English: no visible text changed.

Phase 3 — Italian catalog (visible change)

• 3.0 Merge origin/main first.
• 3.1 Add babel.cfg and the commands from 4.3, documented in README.md or AGENTS.md.
• 3.2 Generate bal/locale/bal.pot and create it_IT/LC_MESSAGES/bal.po.
• 3.3 Draft the translation using the glossary (D1); the owner reviews it (D2). Where Electrum's it_IT catalog already translates the exact same English text, copy Electrum's translation, so the two UIs match.
• 3.4 build_zip.py:
  • compile .po into .mo, according to D4;
  • put only the .mo files in the ZIP (no .po / .pot);
  • run the check script (4.4) before zipping.
• Verify:
  • Electrum in Italian shows BAL in Italian;
  • Electrum in English shows BAL in English;
  • missing entries fall back to English;
  • external_zip_test.py passes;
  • it works on Windows 11 with Electrum 4.8.0 (and 4.7.2);
  • manual walkthrough of: wizard, settings, heirs list, will list and detail, will-executors, check / sign / broadcast, invalidate, export / import, QR transfer, calendar export.

Phase 4 — Final test and merge

• The owner and Truman test the final branch ZIP.
• Merge origin/main into the branch one last time and test again.
• Open the Pull Request feature/i18n → main on Gitea. After the merge, follow the normal release flow from main.

6. Decisions

Recorded on 2026-09-26 from the owner's answers.

• D1 — Italian glossary. Rule: follow Electrum's it_IT wording wherever Electrum already has the term or the sentence. Grammatical variants (nouns, past participles, plurals, capitals in headers and buttons) are adapted in the draft and checked by the owner during the review (D2).

  English	Italian
  will	testamento
  heir / heirs	erede / eredi
  will-executor	Will-Executor (kept in English)
  check-alive	verifica se sei vivo
  invalidate	invalida il piano
  invalidation (noun)	invalidazione del piano
  anticipate / postpone	anticipa / posticipa
  locktime	locktime (kept in English; owner, 2026-09-26)
  fee	commissione (as Electrum)
  broadcast	trasmetti il piano
  sign / signed	firma / firmato (as Electrum)
  wallet	portafogli (as Electrum)

• D2 — Who translates. The developer drafts it_IT/bal.po; the owner reviews and corrects it (for example in Poedit). For later languages: Weblate (supports Gitea and .po) or Crowdin, as Electrum does.

• D3 — Branch and commits. The developer creates feature/i18n, and commits and pushes on it, each time only after the owner's explicit OK (ZIP-FIRST).

• D4 — .mo files. build_zip.py compiles .po into .mo at build time with Babel; .mo files stay out of git (add *.mo to .gitignore). If Babel is missing, the build stops with a clear error, so an English-only ZIP is never shipped by mistake. Reasons: the .po is the only source (no stale .mo), every change to a translation is readable in review, and it is how Electrum works.

• D5 — Cycles. Phases 1 and 2 are delivered in one ZIP/test cycle. Phase 1 is not merged into main early.

• D6 — Branch name: feature/i18n.

• D7 — Lookup order. Electrum's catalog first, then BAL's, then English (see 4.1). Proposed by the owner so that BAL and Electrum read as one, also if Electrum ever integrates BAL.

7. Reminders for the developer

• Talk to the owner in Italian, with simple words and no jargon (the owner is not a programmer). Code, comments, docstrings, UI source strings, docs and commits are in English.
• UI source strings stay in English; Italian lives only in the .po file.
• Never invent. When in doubt, stop and ask.
• Before writing any code, present the phase PLAN and wait for "OK".
• ZIP-FIRST; run ruff and the tests before every ZIP; one CHANGELOG entry per phase; keep reports brief (CREDIT-SAVING).
• Wallet data compatibility comes first: apart from 2.8 (status labels), do not change what is stored.

Appendix — Inventory at main @ 4a33116

Generated by a static scan (AST, Ruff INT and xgettext). The line numbers will move after merging a newer main: re-run the scan or search by content. These lists cover the known cases; Phase 2 still needs a full sweep.

A. f-string / .format() inside _() — Ruff INT001/INT002 (14)

Location	Rule
bal/cli/controller.py:92	INT001
bal/cli/controller.py:98	INT001
bal/cli/controller.py:104	INT001
bal/gui/qt/common.py:225	INT002
bal/gui/qt/common.py:240	INT002
bal/gui/qt/dialogs.py:1226	INT001
bal/gui/qt/dialogs.py:2491	INT001
bal/gui/qt/window.py:831	INT001
bal/gui/qt/window.py:836	INT001
bal/gui/qt/window.py:1090	INT001
bal/gui/qt/window.py:1091	INT001
bal/gui/qt/window.py:2228	INT001
bal/gui/qt/window.py:2236	INT001
bal/gui/qt/window.py:2246	INT001

B. _() with a non-literal argument (not extractable) (15)

Location	Code
bal/core/will.py:1344	_(self.STATUS[status][0])
bal/gui/qt/common.py:181	_(label)
bal/gui/qt/dialogs.py:327	_(self.message)
bal/gui/qt/dialogs.py:2288	_(msg)
bal/gui/qt/dialogs.py:2291	_(msg)
bal/gui/qt/lists.py:1240	_(label)
bal/gui/qt/plugin.py:1086	_(title)
bal/gui/qt/widgets.py:284	_(self.tooltip_text)
bal/gui/qt/widgets.py:1320	_(str(title))
bal/gui/qt/window.py:290	_(title)
bal/gui/qt/window.py:942	_(message)
bal/gui/qt/window.py:2217	_(self.DOWNLOAD_FAILED_TOR_MESSAGE)
bal/gui/qt/window.py:2219	_(self.DOWNLOAD_FAILED_MESSAGE)
bal/gui/qt/window.py:2253	_(self.DOWNLOAD_FAILED_TOR_MESSAGE)
bal/gui/qt/window.py:2255	_(self.DOWNLOAD_FAILED_MESSAGE)

C. Concatenations around _() (14)

Location	Expression
bal/core/will.py:1344	'.' + (('NOT ' if not value else '') + _(self.STATUS[status][0]))
bal/gui/qt/dialogs.py:1010	_('Wallet balance is too low: {} satoshi available, but the miner and…
bal/gui/qt/dialogs.py:2206	messages[reason] + '\n\n' + _('Skipped')
bal/gui/qt/dialogs.py:2209	_("Could not build the will, and the exact cause could not be determi…
bal/gui/qt/dialogs.py:2419	_('Expiration date: ') + str(BalTimestamp(self.threshold))
bal/gui/qt/dialogs.py:2425	_('Valid Txs:') + str(len(Will.only_valid_list(self.will)))
bal/gui/qt/dialogs.py:2427	_('Total Txs:') + str(len(self.will))
bal/gui/qt/lists.py:679	' ' + _('Build Your Will')
bal/gui/qt/plugin.py:301	'Bal ' + _('Bitcoin After Life')
bal/gui/qt/plugin.py:1034	'<b>' + _('Support:') + '</b>'
bal/gui/qt/plugin.py:1086	_('BAL - ') + _(title)
bal/gui/qt/widgets.py:1320	'<b>' + _(str(title)) + f':</b>\t{str(value)}'
bal/gui/qt/window.py:1022	_('Electrum was unable to deserialize the transaction:') + '\n' + str…
bal/gui/qt/window.py:1091	msg + _(f'signing: {tosign}')

D. _() evaluated at import time (class body) (18)

Location	Scope	Call
bal/gui/qt/dialogs.py:419	class body	_('Bitcoin After Life Will-Executors')
bal/gui/qt/dialogs.py:420	class body	_('Choose willexecutors download method')
bal/gui/qt/dialogs.py:528	class body	_('Configure and select your willexecutors')
bal/gui/qt/dialogs.py:548	class body	_('')
bal/gui/qt/lists.py:131	class body	_('Name')
bal/gui/qt/lists.py:132	class body	_('Address')
bal/gui/qt/lists.py:133	class body	_('Amount')
bal/gui/qt/lists.py:340	class body	_('Locktime')
bal/gui/qt/lists.py:341	class body	_('Txid')
bal/gui/qt/lists.py:342	class body	_('Will-Executor')
bal/gui/qt/lists.py:343	class body	_('Status')
bal/gui/qt/lists.py:344	class body	_('Server')
bal/gui/qt/lists.py:907	class body	_('')
bal/gui/qt/lists.py:908	class body	_('Url')
bal/gui/qt/lists.py:909	class body	_('S')
bal/gui/qt/lists.py:910	class body	_('Base fee')
bal/gui/qt/lists.py:911	class body	_('Info')
bal/gui/qt/lists.py:912	class body	_('Default Address')

E. _("") (2)

Location	Call
bal/gui/qt/dialogs.py:548	_('')
bal/gui/qt/lists.py:907	_('')

F. Settings help texts never passed to _() (12)

Location	Widget	Text
bal/gui/qt/plugin.py:715	HelpButton	When checking, automatically sign and broadcast the will transactions…
bal/gui/qt/plugin.py:778	HelpButton	How many reminder alarms the exported calendar (.ics) event contains.…
bal/gui/qt/plugin.py:789	HelpButton	Default message to be used in event summary\nVariables:\n $wallet_na…
bal/gui/qt/plugin.py:803	HelpButton	Default message to be used in event description\nVariables:\n $walle…
bal/gui/qt/plugin.py:818	HelpButton	URL of the server that provides the will-executor list. Only availab…
bal/gui/qt/plugin.py:829	HelpButton	Command used to open .ics calendar files.\nLeave empty to use the sys…
bal/gui/qt/plugin.py:844	HelpButton	After each check, save the valid will transactions into the wallet's …
bal/gui/qt/plugin.py:858	HelpButton	Label applied to the will transactions saved into the wallet's local …
bal/gui/qt/plugin.py:880	HelpButton	Broadcast all transactions to willexecutors including those already p…
bal/gui/qt/plugin.py:891	HelpButton	Run the 'Build your will' wizard every time the wallet is closed or E…
bal/gui/qt/plugin.py:909	HelpButton	When a new transaction arrives for the wallet, automatically rebuild …
bal/gui/qt/plugin.py:933	HelpButton	Payload size of a single QR code when exporting a will via QR.\n\nLar…

G. add_widget() calls (label translated at runtime, help text never) (5)

Location	Label	Help text
bal/gui/qt/plugin.py:697	Hide Replaced	Hide replaced transactions from will detail and l…
bal/gui/qt/plugin.py:705	Hide Invalidated	Hide invalidated transactions from will detail an…
bal/gui/qt/plugin.py:727	Panel editable Date and Fee	When enabled, the delivery-time and check-alive d…
bal/gui/qt/plugin.py:742	Max Will-Executor Fee (satoshi)	Maximum fee (in satoshi) allowed to be paid to a …
bal/gui/qt/plugin.py:757	User Type	Choose how much detail the plugin shows.\n\nBASIC…

H. Other user-visible text not (correctly) translatable — known cases, not exhaustive

Location	Code	Note
bal/gui/qt/dialogs.py:380	title = "Bitcoin After Life Heirs"	Wizard title, shown untranslated at dialogs.py:325
bal/gui/qt/dialogs.py:527	title = "Bitcoin After Life Will-Executors"	Same
bal/gui/qt/dialogs.py:547	title = "Bitcoin After Life Will Settings"	Same
bal/gui/qt/lists.py:1472	setText("New Will Executor")	Not wrapped
bal/gui/qt/plugin.py:673	QPushButton("Rebroadcast transactions")	Not wrapped
bal/gui/qt/widgets.py:1323	qlabel("Locktime", …)	Translated inside qlabel() but not extractable
bal/gui/qt/widgets.py:1324	qlabel("Creation Time", …)	Same
bal/gui/qt/widgets.py:1334	qlabel("Transaction fees:", …)	Same; qlabel() adds another :
bal/gui/qt/widgets.py:1336	qlabel("Status:", …)	Same; also shows the stored status (see 2.8)
bal/gui/qt/widgets.py:1339	QLabel("<b>Heirs:</b>")	Not wrapped
bal/gui/qt/widgets.py:1366	_("<b>Willexecutor:</b:")	Malformed HTML inside the string
bal/gui/qt/window.py:1613	msg = "Broadcasting Transactions to Will-Executors:\n"	Not wrapped

Not to translate: widgets.py:122 (icon glyph), plugin.py:1020 (link to bitcoin-after.life).

Numbers (main @ 4a33116)

Measure	Value
_() calls	483 in 11 files
Distinct strings, whole package (xgettext)	365 (≈ 2,230 words)
…of which Electrum it_IT already translates	39 (≈ 11 %)
Strings used only by the CLI	36 (≈ 315 words), out of scope
Babel extraction today, GUI + core	323 (≈ 1,900 words)
Expected after Phase 2	≈ 360 (≈ 2,500 words)

Sources

• Electrum 4.8.0: electrum/i18n.py, run_electrum (L433–451), electrum/gui/default_lang.py, electrum/plugin.py (maybe_load_plugin_init_method, read_file), contrib/locale/ — https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/tree/4.8.0
• electrum-locale at the 4.8.0 submodule commit 3d7594c: update.py, llm_proofreader/ — https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum-locale
• Gitea "Update branch" button on pull requests — https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/9784
• Weblate: Gitea and gettext PO support — https://docs.weblate.org/en/latest/vcs.html