[shivamhwp]

Problem

The desktop build ships only the en-US Chromium locale pak, so every page in the built-in browser runs as en-US whatever the OS language is. With a French OS, navigator.language and the default Intl locale are en-US, and <input type="date"> expects mm/dd/yyyy. Typing 03/04/2026 (3 April) silently stores 2026-03-04 (4 March).

Closes #23719

Change

• Drop electronLanguages: ["en-US"] from the electron-builder config so all 55 Chromium locale paks ship again. Chromium picks the closest pak to the OS language, so pages get the user's language and date formats, as in Chrome.
• Leave a comment where the setting was, so nobody trims the locales again to save space, and add a test that the config doesn't set it.
• Raise the Windows packaged-file budget from 80 to 140. Electron's Windows build has 55 locale paks, so shipping all of them pushes the unpacked app past 80 and the release check fails. Main's payload passes at 80 or fewer, so 54 more files stay under 140. The budget (perf(desktop): speed up Windows update installation #6169) exists to catch loose dependency trees, which run to hundreds of files, and still does. docs/operations/release.md says 140 now.
• Update the ElectronApp.systemLocale and DesktopBridge.getSystemLocale comments. Their reason (only en-US ships) no longer holds. The method itself still matters because Chromium's locale drops a separately set region.

Size cost: Electron 44.9.3's locales/ folder is 8.7 MB on Linux x64 (du -sh node_modules/electron/dist/locales). My two Linux builds went from 450.8 MB to 459.6 MB unpacked, measured with du -sb.

Scope and approval

A small fix for the bug in #23719: one line of packaging config, plus the Windows file budget it would otherwise trip. T3's own text stays English. Anything that formats with the default locale now follows the OS language: pages in the built-in browser, plus T3's own number and date formatting where it doesn't pass a locale.

Verification

The screenshots below come from builds of e67b115. The branch is now rebased onto main as bdab2a9; the rebase changed only comments, and Electron is still 44.9.3, so I didn't rebuild.

Linux x64, unpacked dir build of main and of this branch, run under Xvfb with LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr and a throwaway T3CODE_HOME. In the built-in browser panel I opened a local test page, clicked the date input and typed 03042026.

	main	this PR
locale paks shipped	en-US.pak only	55
navigator.language	en-US	fr
Intl default locale	en-US	fr
typed 03/04/2026 stores	2026-03-04 (4 March)	2026-04-03 (3 April)

Before (main):

After (this PR):

macOS

macOS 27 on an Apple silicon Mac mini. I built this branch as an unsigned arm64 dir build, then built it again with --skip-build and main's electronLanguages: ["en-US"]. Each app ran with French set for that app only (-AppleLanguages "(fr-FR)" -AppleLocale fr_FR), on the same test page.

	main	this PR
.lproj folders shipped	en.lproj only	all
navigator.language	en-US	fr
Intl default locale	en-US	fr
new Date(2026, 3, 3).toLocaleDateString()	4/3/2026	03/04/2026
typed 03/04/2026 stores	2026-04-03	2026-04-03

On macOS the date input already followed the French day/month order on main in this setup, so that part of the bug didn't reproduce here. I set French per app, and the reporter set it for the whole system, which may explain the difference. The navigator.language and Intl part did reproduce, and this PR fixes it. With the Mac's own setting (en-IN, no override), this PR gives en-GB and 03/04/2026. The menu bar stays English.

Before (main):

After (this PR):

Other checks

• scripts/build-desktop-artifact.test.ts: the new test fails on main and passes here.
• vp run check:changed passes.
• Not run: a Windows build. A Windows cross-build on Linux stops at a native step, so the new 140 budget is checked against the arithmetic above, not a real Windows payload. The release build's own payload check would fail loudly if it were wrong.

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Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — The production packaging change removes the en-US-only locale restriction, changing default browser language and locale-sensitive formatting for existing users. Because this changes product defaults, the change requires human review.

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Walkthrough

The desktop build no longer sets electronLanguages. A test checks that the option is absent for macOS, Linux, and Windows configurations. The Windows packaged-payload file limit increases from 80 to 140.

Changes: Desktop locale configuration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Remove the Electron locale restriction scripts/build-desktop-artifact.ts, scripts/build-desktop-artifact.test.ts, apps/desktop/src/electron/ElectronApp.ts, packages/contracts/src/ipc.ts	The build no longer defines or sets electronLanguages. A test checks that the option is absent from macOS, Linux, and Windows configurations. The locale comments describe Chromium’s locale-pack selection and possible loss of the OS region.

Windows packaged-payload file limit

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Raise the Windows file limit scripts/build-desktop-artifact.ts, docs/operations/release.md	The Windows packaged-payload file limit increases from 80 to 140 in the build configuration and release documentation.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 5ac45

No concrete issue remains that would prevent merging after normal checks.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check		The packaging change removes the electronLanguages: ["en-US"] restriction and adds a regression test for that configuration. This supports the language and date-input fix in [#23719]. However, the u…	Preserve the OS language and region for built-in browser content, including fr-FR for a French fr-FR system. Add automated coverage for the browser locale, default Intl locale, site language preferences, and date-input behavior.

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: the built-in browser now follows the OS language instead of being pinned to en-US. It uses the conventional commit format, and the change matches the raw summary and t…
Description check		The description follows the template. It has Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections, each with substantive content. The Problem section gives the bug, the expected behavior, an…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changed files support [#23719]. They remove the Chromium locale restriction, add a packaging regression test, update locale comments, and raise and document the Windows payload limit required for …

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Explanation

The title names the main change: the built-in browser now follows the OS language instead of being pinned to en-US. It uses the conventional commit format, and the change matches the raw summary and the objectives. The title is short, specific, and free of file lists or vague terms.

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Explanation

The description follows the template. It has Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections, each with substantive content. The Problem section gives the bug, the expected behavior, and the reproduction steps. The Change section lists the packaging, test, budget, and comment changes. The Scope section links issue #23719 and explains why the fix is small. The Verification section gives Linux and macOS results, names the tests run, and states that a Windows build was not run. It also names the model and harness used. The description is complete and specific. One gap: the Scope section does not link a maintainer approval comment, so the scope claim rests on the author's own justification.

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Explanation

The changed files support [#23719]. They remove the Chromium locale restriction, add a packaging regression test, update locale comments, and raise and document the Windows payload limit required for the additional locale files. No unrelated product behavior is demonstrated.

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Explanation

The packaging change removes the electronLanguages: ["en-US"] restriction and adds a regression test for that configuration. This supports the language and date-input fix in [#23719]. However, the updated comments state that Chromium can drop the OS region, and the reported result is fr, not the issue's required fr-FR. The test does not verify navigator.language, the default Intl locale, site language preferences, or date-input parsing.

Resolution

Preserve the OS language and region for built-in browser content, including fr-FR for a French fr-FR system. Add automated coverage for the browser locale, default Intl locale, site language preferences, and date-input behavior.

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[GPT-6.1][Codex] on behalf of shivam.

@juliusmarminge this fix ships all 55 Chromium locale packs instead of only en-US. On Linux x64, the extra 54 packs total 8,881,752 bytes, about 8.88 MB of installed disk space. Every desktop install ships the extra packs, including English users. The compressed download increase hasn't been measured.

The before/after evidence above verifies the browser language and default Intl fix on Linux and macOS, plus the date-input fix on Linux. Windows hasn't been tested.

Should we get this in with that size tradeoff?

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scripts/build-desktop-artifact.ts: 1

1055-1055: Trivial · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift

Add coverage for the packaged locale files.

The Windows build already validates the real win-unpacked output and rejects payloads above 140 files. However, the tests use a synthetic payload with no Chromium locale paks, so they do not detect missing locale files or establish the real payload's margin below the limit. Add representative locale files or an artifact-level Windows check.

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Extend the Windows packaged-payload coverage associated with
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