Folio Nine in 46 languages

Folio Nine sells website templates. Its catalogue and two template demos were translated from English into 45 more languages with the kaeris command-line tool, then built and checked. Below are real strings from the live pages, the numbers from those runs, what had to be fixed by hand, and what has not been reviewed yet.

Before and after, on the live demos

The English source, then the same string as it is served today. Each demo has its own address for every language, such as /ru/ or /ja/. Copied from the pages on 2 November 2026.

Talvor, a design studio demo: the main heading of the home page. spread.folionine.com
Language	On the page
English, source	Talvor is a design studio in Lisbon. We make identities, packaging and websites for companies that make physical things, and we photograph the work ourselves.
Russian	Talvor — дизайн-студия в Лиссабоне. Мы создаем фирменный стиль, упаковку и веб-сайты для компаний, производящих физические продукты, и сами фотографируем результаты.
Japanese	Talvorはリスボンのデザインスタジオです。物理的な製品を作る企業のために、アイデンティティ、パッケージ、ウェブサイトを制作し、作品は自社で撮影しています。
Arabic	Talvor هو استوديو تصميم في لشبونة. نقوم بإنشاء هويات وتغليف ومواقع إلكترونية للشركات التي تصنع أشياء مادية، ونقوم بتصوير الأعمال بأنفسنا.

Aurvane, a game launch demo: the page title and the store button. embargo.folionine.com
Language	On the page
English, source	Aurvane — Carry the last light Wishlist on Steam
German	Aurvane — Trage das letzte Licht Auf Steam auf die Wunschliste setzen
Japanese	Aurvane — 最後の光を運ぶ Steamでウィッシュリストに追加
Arabic	Aurvane — احمل النور الأخير أضف إلى قائمة الأمنيات على Steam

What was checked by running it

Every number below comes from a command that was run on the result, not from reading the files.

What	Result	Checked with
Catalogue strings shown in the page's language	99.16% of 25,714; before the run, 53.85%	A script that counts visible strings on every built page
Catalogue strings left in English	217 (0.84%): words such as Support, FAQ and Demo, and the abbreviation LCP	The same count
Catalogue build	508 pages in 46 locales	`npm run build`
Titles, descriptions and language links	0 issues	`npm run verify:seo`
Templates and types	0 errors	`npm run check`
Live demos	Russian, Ukrainian, German, Japanese and Arabic answer with a translated title on both demos	An HTTP request to each address, 2 November 2026
Verandah, a fourth template, not public yet	45 languages: 260 interface strings and 31 listings in each	The template's build
Verandah placeholders such as `{n}` and `{price}`	0 mismatches across 45 dictionaries	A script that compares placeholders with the English file
Verandah listings still identical to English	0 of 1,395	A script that compares each listing with its English source

What had to be fixed by hand

The run did not end with a finished site. These are the problems found afterwards.

KAERIS translated values that the template uses as fixed codes in Markdown front matter, the included and energy fields, and the Verandah build failed on its schema. The values were put back from the English files by a script. The bug is found and reproduced in KAERIS; the fix is in progress.
In 11 files a literal \r was left at the end of lines. It was removed and the site rebuilt.
The Arabic description of the template licence said the opposite of the English one: that the source code is published. It was rewritten.
The Japanese search descriptions were padded with filler to reach the length the SEO check asks for. They were rewritten with real facts.
An Arabic spelling of the place name Vell Alt, فيل ألت, reads as the word for elephant. Place names were then made consistent, one spelling per language.

Limits

Machine-translated and checked by back-translation; not reviewed by native speakers yet.

None of the 46 languages has been read by a native speaker.
An editing pass, not by native speakers, covered Arabic, Japanese, Russian and Ukrainian, and only the catalogue.
The legal pages in the other 41 languages were checked only by --verify.
217 catalogue strings are still English, as listed above.
Verandah has no public demo yet.

The command

The general shape of the run. --keep is the do-not-translate list, --context says what the site is, and --verify translates every result back to English and writes the lines worth a second look to a file.

kaeris translate <source files> --langs <codes> \
  --keep "Folio Nine,Astro,…" \
  --context "<what the site is and who reads it>" \
  --verify

See it

Talvor, the Spread demo, in 46 languages.
Aurvane, the Embargo demo, in the same 46 languages.

Plans and limits for the tool used here are on the pricing page.