Reason: The M0 application is an English-only expert-operated CLI with no civic/public-service end-user workflow and no localized date, number, or currency presentation.
Obligation Receipts is an English-only, expert-operated technical-alpha CLI. It has no public-service workflow, HTML surface, translated catalog, or locale-dependent parsing behavior. Internationalization is therefore not applicable to M0.
This decision must be revisited before adding a reviewer UI, localized trace reports, or an operator population with a declared language-access obligation. Machine schemas, enum values, identifiers, and canonical serialization remain locale-independent.
Entry point if this changes: introduce a gettext boundary for CLI and report prose while keeping schema keys, enum values, identifiers, canonical JSON, and digests locale-independent; then apply the portfolio catalog and parity gates.
Declared: 2026-07-23 · Reviewer: Maintainer · Review by: 2026-10-23