1 files changed, 36 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_video_subtitles.py b/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_video_subtitles.py
index 9f0c08d..6867076 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_video_subtitles.py
+++ b/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_video_subtitles.py
@@ -110,7 +110,10 @@ def _label_cases(tmp_path, app, cases, locale="en"):
     ])
     script.write_text(
         f"const getLocale = () => '{locale}';\n"
-        "const t = (k, p) => `${k}:${p.n}`;\n"
+        # Not every key is interpolated — the forced/SDH qualifiers take no
+        # parameters — and a stub that assumes one throws where the real `t`
+        # returns a string. A fixture narrower than production tests itself.
+        "const t = (k, p) => (p ? `${k}:${p.n}` : k);\n"
         + src
         + "\nconst out = JSON.parse(process.argv[2]).map(subtitleTrackLabel);\n"
           "console.log(JSON.stringify(out));\n")
@@ -150,6 +153,38 @@ def test_the_container_title_tells_a_forced_track_from_a_full_one(tmp_path, app)
     assert "Forced" in out[0] and "SDH" in out[1]
 
 
+def test_a_forced_track_is_named_as_one_in_the_reader_s_language(tmp_path, app):
+    """The entry that was reported as a broken feature.
+
+    A forced track shows signage and foreign dialogue only — on a real film,
+    77 seconds of text across 2h32 — so picking it and seeing nothing is its
+    normal behaviour. It has to be possible to tell it from the full track
+    beside it, which carries the same language tag, and the disposition says
+    so where the container's English title tag is often simply absent.
+    """
+    out = _label_cases(tmp_path, app, [
+        {"i": 0, "lang": "fre", "forced": True},
+        {"i": 1, "lang": "fre"},
+        {"i": 2, "lang": "eng", "sdh": True},
+    ])
+    assert out[0] != out[1], f"a forced track must not read like the full one: {out}"
+    # The catalogues are stubbed here, so what is asserted is that the label
+    # goes through `t` at all: the qualifier has to be translated, not the
+    # English word a muxer typed into the container.
+    assert out[0] == 'French — video.subtitles_forced', out
+    assert out[1] == 'French', out
+    assert out[2] == 'English — video.subtitles_sdh', out
+
+
+def test_the_disposition_wins_over_the_container_title(tmp_path, app):
+    """A muxer's "Forced" is one spelling of many, and in one language."""
+    out = _label_cases(tmp_path, app, [
+        {"i": 0, "lang": "fre", "title": "FORCE VF", "forced": True},
+    ])
+    assert 'FORCE VF' not in out[0], out
+    assert out[0] == 'French — video.subtitles_forced', out
+
+
 def test_an_untagged_track_is_numbered_not_called_unknown(tmp_path, app):
     """A file with no language tags still needs distinguishable entries."""
     out = _label_cases(tmp_path, app, [{"i": 3, "lang": None}, {"i": 4, "lang": "und"}])