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feat(installer): attested-only Ainu (Aynu itak) locale#37

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@mkpoli mkpoli commented Jun 27, 2026

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Builds the Ainu locale separately from the EN/JA/RU/ZH PR, as you asked — and honestly, from real sources rather than a placeholder.

Research finding (via the Ainu MCP over mkpoli/mediawiki-ainu-i18n + the dictionaries): the attested Ainu software-UI lexicon is sparse — even the 4,619-string MediaWiki Ainu project renders most UI strings (Next, Install, Yes/No, …) as Japanese fallback. So this locale translates only what's attested, each string sourced:

string Ainu source
Cancel Hontomotuye mediawiki-ainu-i18n (cancel)
Back < Hosipi mediawiki (Vector) + dicts (hosipi = go back)
Finish Okere Kanazawa / Batchelor dicts
Welcome Irankarapte! dicts (greeting)
welcome body vetted README sentence project README
corner label Aynu itak aeynuyep project

Everything else keeps the English base (Ainu.isl) — I deliberately don't invent vocabulary for an endangered language; the remaining ~300 strings are a native-speaker/community task. Sources are documented in the .iss and the .isl header; native-speaker review/extension is invited.

⚠️ Stacked on the EN/JA/RU/ZH installer PR (#29 branch); merge that first. Inno compile still needs a Windows build to verify.

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Adds Ainu to the installer language picker as a separate, honest locale: an
English base (Ainu.isl) with Ainu only for the strings that have ATTESTED
vocabulary, each sourced from mkpoli/mediawiki-ainu-i18n and the Ainu
dictionaries (via the Ainu MCP):

  Cancel  → Hontomotuye   (mediawiki-ainu-i18n)
  Back    → < Hosipi      (mediawiki Vector + dictionaries; hosipi = go back)
  Finish  → Okere         (Kanazawa / Batchelor; okere = finish)
  Welcome → Irankarapte!  (dictionaries; greeting)
  + the vetted README sentence for the welcome body, BeveledLabel "Aynu itak aeynuyep".

Software-UI terms with no attested Ainu yet (Next, Install, Yes/No, page
headings) intentionally stay English rather than invent vocabulary for an
endangered language — that's a native-speaker/community task. The full picture:
even mediawiki-ainu-i18n leaves most such strings as Japanese fallback.

Stacked on the EN/JA/RU/ZH installer PR. Inno compile still needs a Windows build
to verify.
@mkpoli mkpoli force-pushed the feat/installer-ainu-locale branch from d08ddd7 to e9930ba Compare June 27, 2026 10:49
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