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Fix preferredLocaleList dropping object-form locale codes that differ in case - #17700

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Fix preferredLocaleList dropping object-form locale codes that differ in case#17700
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  • computePreferredLocaleList compared object-form locale codes exactly, while every other locale comparison in i18n/utils.ts normalizes both sides first. That one raw comparison is now normalized like the rest.
  • The result is a self-contradiction on a single request: sortAndFilterLocales filters on normalized codes, so a locale configured as { path: 'english', codes: ['en-us'] } passes the filter when a browser sends Accept-Language: en-US, and is then silently dropped by the exact comparison. Astro.preferredLocale returns 'en-us' while Astro.preferredLocaleList returns [].
  • The two branches of the same loop disagreed: the string-locale branch already normalized (so locales: ['en-us'] works today), the object-form branch did not. Underscore codes such as en_US were affected the same way, since normalizeTheLocale maps _ to -.
  • The configured casing is still what gets returned — the comparison is normalized, but the original code is what's pushed, matching how getLocaleByPath compares normalized and returns the configured value.

Production change is one line:

-  if (code === browserLocale.locale) {
+  if (normalizeTheLocale(code) === normalizeTheLocale(browserLocale.locale)) {

One thing I deliberately left out: computePreferredLocale breaks out of its codes loop on first match (#16600), and this list function doesn't. That's a visible behaviour difference between the pair, but it's a separate change with its own semantics, so I'd rather ask than bundle it — happy to follow up if you want them aligned.

Testing

Added to the existing packages/astro/test/units/i18n/i18n-utils.test.ts, in the style of the surrounding cases:

  • object-form codes matched case-insensitively (codes: ['en-us'] vs en-US) — failed before this change, returning []
  • object-form codes with an underscore separator (codes: ['en_US']) — failed before, returning []
  • object-form matches sorted by quality value — failed before
  • the configured casing is returned for an exact-case object-form code
  • string locales still match case-insensitively
  • a code is returned rather than the path for a multi-code entry

The last three pass both before and after, so they guard against a regression rather than describing the fix.

Locally: 32/32 in that file, and the full i18n unit suite (396 tests), tsc -b, format:ci, biome and eslint all pass. One caveat — astro-scripts test fails on my machine with ERR_UNKNOWN_FILE_EXTENSION for .ts on Node 22.17.1 (the repo's .nvmrc is 24.14.0); it fails identically on files I didn't touch, so I ran the units via the equivalent node --experimental-strip-types --test. CI on Node 24 will run them through the wrapper.

Docs

No docs change needed. Astro.preferredLocaleList is already documented as returning the list of matching locales; this makes the object-form config shape behave as documented, rather than changing any documented behaviour.

The codes branch compared the configured code against the browser locale
raw, while the sibling string branch and sortAndFilterLocales both compare
normalized values. A code differing only by case or separator passed the
filter and was then dropped by the raw compare, so preferredLocaleList came
back empty while preferredLocale returned the code on the same request.
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