@justai/cuts 0.36.0 → 0.37.0

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@justai/cuts",
-  "version": "0.36.0",
+  "version": "0.37.0",
   "description": "A persona's named parts \u2014 the page shell that holds them, and the cuts themselves.",
   "license": "UNLICENSED",
   "repository": {

package/src/LangPicker.astro

@@ -154,13 +154,34 @@ const ordered = orderLocales(locales);
     });
     sheet?.addEventListener("close", () => trigger.setAttribute("aria-expanded", "false"));
 
-    // Remember the chosen language for auto-routing on the next visit.
+    // queries: language picker does not close · choosing a language does nothing · route-less
+    //          locale switch · the sheet stays open after picking a language · /me /files language
+    //
+    // Remember the choice, then GO — and "go" has two shapes, because two kinds of consumer exist.
+    //
+    // A persona with per-locale routes navigates to /<lang>/, carrying the section it was on. A
+    // ROUTE-LESS surface — /me, /files: one bundle mounted at one path on thirteen hosts, translated
+    // in the browser — hands back the page it is already on, because there is nowhere else to go.
+    //
+    // The second case was broken from the day those surfaces adopted this cut, and it broke quietly:
+    // `location.assign("/me" + "#kernel")` on a page already at `/me#kernel` is the SAME URL, so the
+    // browser correctly does nothing. The choice was written to localStorage, no navigation
+    // happened, the sheet stayed open and the words stayed English. It looked like a picker that
+    // ignores you.
     for (const it of items) {
       it.addEventListener("click", (e) => {
-        localStorage.setItem("lang", it.dataset.lang ?? "en");
-        // preserve the section you're viewing (Profile/Kernel/Posts) across the language switch
+        try { localStorage.setItem("lang", it.dataset.lang ?? "en"); } catch { /* a locked jar is not a reason to refuse the click */ }
         const href = it.getAttribute("href");
-        if (href && location.hash) { e.preventDefault(); location.assign(href + location.hash); }
+        if (!href) return;
+        const to = new URL(href, location.href);
+        if (to.pathname === location.pathname && to.search === location.search) {
+          // Same document: the only way to re-render is to reload it.
+          e.preventDefault();
+          location.reload();
+          return;
+        }
+        // preserve the section you're viewing (Profile/Kernel/Posts) across the language switch
+        if (location.hash) { e.preventDefault(); location.assign(href + location.hash); }
       });
     }
   }