# Language policy rule (always loaded)

The project targets a global audience and is **English-first**.

- **Code, comments, docstrings, docs, commit messages, identifiers**: English only.
- **CJK characters are allowed only in**:
  - test fixtures under `tests/` and `data/` (multilingual input is the point), and
  - locale-suffixed mirror files (e.g. `*_zh.json`).
- Do **not** introduce CJK into `src/`, `docs/`, or config.

Enforcement: `make check-cjk` scans for stray CJK outside the allowlist (advisory).
Keep user-facing strings and error messages in English.