Save preferred locale to local storage

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Your selected language is now saved and restored automatically on future visits.
  • The app uses your previously selected language when available and falls back to browser language preferences otherwise.

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Walkthrough

The application restores a supported locale from localStorage during startup. Vue i18n locale changes are persisted under preferred-locale.

Changes

Locale preference handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Locale initialization and persistence src/main.ts, src/App.vue	src/main.ts reads a supported preferred-locale before using browser language detection. src/App.vue watches the Vue i18n locale and saves changes to localStorage.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2ca7e

The PR remembers a user's preferred locale, but browser storage failures could prevent the application from starting or stop later locale changes from being saved. This is a bounded, local risk that is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up to guard both storage operations.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Main as src/main.ts
  participant Storage as localStorage
  participant I18n as Vue i18n
  participant App as src/App.vue
  Main->>Storage: Read preferred-locale
  Main->>I18n: Initialize selected locale
  App->>I18n: Read current locale with useI18n
  App->>Storage: Persist locale changes as preferred-locale

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Poem

A rabbit finds a language key,
And saves it where the browsers lie.
Vue i18n hops into place,
With stored words ready for the race.
New locale choices stay nearby.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the main change: saving and restoring the preferred locale with local storage.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 1…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/main.ts`:
- Line 9: Wrap the preferred-locale read assigned to savedLocale in
src/main.ts:9 with safe handling that returns null when Web Storage access
fails; in src/App.vue:8-10, wrap the locale-change write so SecurityError or
QuotaExceededError is ignored without disrupting the change flow.

Apply the same fix in `@src/App.vue` around lines 8 - 10: The locale watcher
writes to localStorage and needs the same exception isolation.

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