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+-- Gold's naming/keyboard screen (src/ui/gen2/NamingScreen.lua) had zero
+-- Strings() calls: every prompt (YOUR NAME?/RIVAL'S NAME?/MOTHER'S NAME?/
+-- BOX NAME?/NICKNAME?), the on-screen keyboard's own letters, and the
+-- lower/UPPER/DEL/END bottom-row labels were bare literals, invisible to a
+-- translation mod's `strings` registry (reported against a real Gold build,
+-- gen1recomp#1642). The Gen 1 naming screen (src/ui/NamingScreen.lua) already
+-- routes its title and every keyboard cell through Strings().
+--
+-- GbcPalette.available() is false headless (no real shader compiles), so
+-- Chrome.printThrough already falls back to the plain, unshaded Chrome.print
+-- -- this drives that path directly and checks the translated text reaches
+-- Font.draw, the same technique
+-- tests/engine/gen2_options_menu_translation_test.lua uses for the OPTION
+-- screen.
+package.path = "./?.lua;./?/init.lua;" .. package.path
+
+local T = require("tests.harness")
+
+love = require("tests.love_stub")
+
+require("src.core.Logger").warn = function() end
+
+local drawn
+package.loaded["src.render.Font"] = {
+  draw = function(text, x, y)
+    drawn[#drawn + 1] = { text = text, x = x, y = y }
+  end,
+  drawCode = function() end,
+  drawBox = function() end,
+}
+
+local NamingScreen = require("src.ui.gen2.NamingScreen")
+local Strings = require("src.core.Strings")
+
+local function drawnAt(x, y)
+  for _, d in ipairs(drawn) do
+    if d.x == x and d.y == y then return d.text end
+  end
+  return nil
+end
+
+-- Chrome.print multiplies tile coordinates by 8 (src/ui/gen2/Chrome.lua);
+-- the prompt lands at tile (5, 2), the keyboard's first cell at (2, 8).
+local PROMPT_X, PROMPT_Y = 5 * 8, 2 * 8
+local FIRST_CELL_X, FIRST_CELL_Y = 2 * 8, 8 * 8
+
+-- ---------------------------------------------- vanilla: no mod catalog
+do
+  local screen = NamingScreen.new({}, { type = "player" })
+  drawn = {}
+  screen:drawPanel()
+  T.eq(drawnAt(PROMPT_X, PROMPT_Y), "YOUR NAME?",
+    "the player-name prompt draws in English with no mod loaded")
+  T.eq(drawnAt(FIRST_CELL_X, FIRST_CELL_Y), "A",
+    "and the keyboard's first cell too")
+end
+
+-- ------------------------------------------------- a translation mod's turn
+do
+  Strings.load({
+    strings = {
+      ["YOUR NAME?"] = "TON NOM?",
+      ["A"] = "À",
+      ["lower"] = "minusc",
+      ["END"] = "FIN",
+      ["%s'S"] = "DE %s",
+      ["NICKNAME?"] = "SURNOM?",
+    },
+  })
+
+  local screen = NamingScreen.new({}, { type = "player" })
+  drawn = {}
+  screen:drawPanel()
+  T.eq(drawnAt(PROMPT_X, PROMPT_Y), "TON NOM?",
+    "a mod catalog reaches the prompt")
+  T.eq(drawnAt(FIRST_CELL_X, FIRST_CELL_Y), "À",
+    "and a keyboard cell")
+
+  -- The bottom row: lower/DEL/END at tile y = keyboardTop + bottom*2.
+  local bottomY = (screen:keyboardTop() + screen:bottomRow() * 2) * 8
+  T.eq(drawnAt(2 * 8, bottomY), "minusc", "the case-switch label is translated")
+  T.eq(drawnAt(15 * 8, bottomY), "FIN", "and END, the way out of the screen")
+
+  -- The nickname header: two lines, the mon name folded into the first.
+  local nickScreen = NamingScreen.new({}, { type = "nickname", monName = "BULBASAUR" })
+  drawn = {}
+  nickScreen:drawPanel()
+  T.eq(drawnAt(PROMPT_X, PROMPT_Y), "DE BULBASAUR",
+    "the nickname header's first line takes the mod's own word order")
+  T.eq(drawnAt(PROMPT_X, 4 * 8), "SURNOM?", "and its second line")
+
+  -- Module state is process-global (see tests/gen2_clock_test.lua's own
+  -- note); this suite gets its own process from tests/tier_runner.lua, but
+  -- leaving the catalog loaded past this point would still mistranslate
+  -- every check below it in this file.
+  Strings.load({})
+  T.check(not Strings.active(), "the catalog is unloaded for the checks after this one")
+end
+
+T.finish("gen2_naming_screen_translation_test")