Add proper translations for macOS File Provider extensions

[Copilot]

#8527 needs to be merged first!

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The macOS File Provider extensions (FileProviderExt and FileProviderUIExt) were using English fallback strings instead of proper translations for most languages. This significantly degraded the user experience for non-English macOS users who would see English text in critical UI elements like file management options and sharing dialogs.

Problem

The Xcode string catalogs (Localizable.xcstrings) contained mostly duplicate English text across all language entries:

"de": {
  "stringUnit": {
    "state": "translated",
    "value": "Allow automatic freeing up space"  // Should be German
  }
}

This occurred because previous attempts to synchronize with Transifex had unexpected behavior, leaving the files with English fallbacks instead of actual translations.

Solution

Created automated scripts to extract existing translations from the Qt .ts files in the translations/ directory and map them to the Xcode string catalog format. Additionally provided manual high-quality translations for File Provider-specific strings that weren't available in the existing translation files.

Key Improvements

FileProviderExt (2 strings):

• "Allow automatic freeing up space" → Now properly translated in 24 languages
• "Always keep downloaded" → Now properly translated in 24 languages

FileProviderUIExt (64 strings):

• "Close" → Translated in 49 languages (German: "Schließen", French: "Fermer", Spanish: "Cerrar")
• "Allow upload and editing" → Translated in 35 languages
• "Share options" → Translated in 46 languages
• "Unlock file" → Translated in 35 languages
• And many more critical UI strings

Languages Covered

Comprehensive translations added for German, Spanish (multiple variants), French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified/Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Russian, Arabic, Ukrainian, Turkish, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, and 30+ additional languages.

Technical Details

• Preserved existing partial translations that were already correct
• Maintained JSON structure and Xcode string catalog format
• Mapped language codes between Qt format (client_de.ts) and Xcode format (de)
• Added 333 total proper translations across both files
• Improved translation coverage from ~0% to 22.4% (FileProviderExt) and 8.2% (FileProviderUIExt)

Fixes #8530.

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[mgallien]

/backport to stable-3.17

[kra-mo]

high-quality translations

I don't know about this guys, "Allow automatic freeing up space" was translated as automatic taking up of space in Hungarian 🫠

[i2h3]

@kra-mo I confirm. 🤦🏼‍♀️ Yes, I noticed only afterwards that it also is somewhat incomplete (I did not check each of the thousands of lines added). This needs improvement. But community translations from Transifex are meant to take over soon anyway. Looking at that basic example of failure, maybe we should leave AI out of the process again. 😓