diff --git a/backend/app/refusal.py b/backend/app/refusal.py
index fc70f7b6..95b2cf04 100644
--- a/backend/app/refusal.py
+++ b/backend/app/refusal.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 """A request the app refuses, said in a way the UI can put in the reader's language.
 
 Every refusal the API answers carries a structured `detail` — `{code, reason, …params}` — and the client
-translates it (`lib/api/core.ts` `localizeDetail`). A bare English string reached the Hungarian UI
+translates it (`lib/api/refusalText.ts` `localizeDetail`). A bare English string reached the Hungarian UI
 verbatim: the blocking error dialog, and every inline surface that printed `HttpError.detail`, showed
 whatever sentence the route happened to hand-write. `refused` is the generic family
 (`errors.refused.<reason>`, the params interpolated into the sentence); the older specific codes
diff --git a/backend/app/routes/files.py b/backend/app/routes/files.py
index 27645322..d0f17765 100644
--- a/backend/app/routes/files.py
+++ b/backend/app/routes/files.py
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ def own_job_for_update(db: Session, user: User, job_id: int) -> "DownloadJob":
 
 def quota_detail(e: quota.QuotaExceeded) -> dict:
     """Structured error the trilingual client localizes (reason key + numbers), instead of a
-    pre-baked English string with a dot-decimal GB value. See lib/api.ts localizeDetail()."""
+    pre-baked English string with a dot-decimal GB value. See lib/api/refusalText.ts localizeDetail()."""
     return {"code": "quota", "reason": e.reason, "limit": e.limit, "current": e.current}
 
 
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ui/uiI18n.contract.test.ts b/frontend/src/components/ui/uiI18n.contract.test.ts
index c3c93275..934d3873 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/ui/uiI18n.contract.test.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ui/uiI18n.contract.test.ts
@@ -19,8 +19,9 @@ const PLATFORM_NAMESPACES = new Set([
 ]);
 
 const files = readSources(__dirname, "./**/*.{ts,tsx}");
-// `t("ns.…")` and `t(\`ns.…\`)` — the namespace is everything before the first dot.
-const KEY = /\bt\(\s*["`]([A-Za-z]+)\./g;
+// `t("ns.…")` and `t(\`ns.…\`)`, and a notice's `msg("ns.…")` (the same key, said when shown) — the
+// namespace is everything before the first dot.
+const KEY = /\b(?:t|msg)\(\s*["`]([A-Za-z]+)\./g;
 
 describe("components/ui/ speaks only platform i18n namespaces", () => {
   it("names no feature namespace", () => {
@@ -37,5 +38,6 @@ describe("components/ui/ speaks only platform i18n namespaces", () => {
 
   it("sees a feature namespace when one is used", () => {
     expect([...'t("plex.loading")'.matchAll(KEY)].map((m) => m[1])).toEqual(["plex"]);
+    expect([...'msg("plex.loading")'.matchAll(KEY)].map((m) => m[1])).toEqual(["plex"]);
   });
 });
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/notifications.ts b/frontend/src/lib/notifications.ts
index 566ccfcb..993abbf7 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/notifications.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/notifications.ts
@@ -42,8 +42,10 @@ export function sayNotif(text: NotifText, t: TFunction = i18n.t.bind(i18n)): str
 
 function sayValue(v: NotifValue, t: TFunction): string | number {
   if (typeof v !== "object") return v;
-  if ("number" in v) return formatNumber(v.number, i18n.language);
-  if ("bytes" in v) return formatBytes(v.bytes, i18n.language);
+  // In the language `t` speaks: a fixed one (the English log) names it, a component's follows i18n.
+  const lang = (t as { lng?: string }).lng ?? i18n.language;
+  if ("number" in v) return formatNumber(v.number, lang);
+  if ("bytes" in v) return formatBytes(v.bytes, lang);
   return sayNotif(v, t);
 }
 
diff --git a/frontend/src/modules/settings/SettingsPanel.tsx b/frontend/src/modules/settings/SettingsPanel.tsx
index 2b416c66..58673a5c 100644
--- a/frontend/src/modules/settings/SettingsPanel.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/modules/settings/SettingsPanel.tsx
@@ -643,7 +643,7 @@ export function DownloadAuth() {
       notify({ level: "success", message: msg("settings.downloadAuth.saved") });
     },
     // Validation errors (empty / not-a-cookies.txt) surface via the global error modal, which
-    // localizes the structured { code: "cookies" } detail (see lib/api core localizeDetail); the
+    // localizes the structured { code: "cookies" } detail (see lib/api/refusalText.ts localizeDetail); the
     // statuses it does not cover go to the app-wide reporter.
     meta: { failTitle: "settings.downloadAuth.failed" },
   });
diff --git a/frontend/src/shell/clientLogWiring.dom.test.tsx b/frontend/src/shell/clientLogWiring.dom.test.tsx
index 2f4981b6..0a9d4675 100644
--- a/frontend/src/shell/clientLogWiring.dom.test.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/shell/clientLogWiring.dom.test.tsx
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ import { afterEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
 import { cleanup, render } from "@testing-library/react";
 
 import { clear, events } from "../lib/log";
-import { notify, raw } from "../lib/notifications";
+import { msg, notify, raw } from "../lib/notifications";
+import i18n from "../i18n";
 import { reportError } from "../lib/errorDialog";
 import { createQueryClient } from "../lib/queryClient";
 import ErrorBoundary from "./ErrorBoundary";
@@ -31,6 +32,27 @@ describe("client log wiring", () => {
     ]);
   });
 
+  it("records a notice in English whatever the reader's language, its numbers included", async () => {
+    await i18n.changeLanguage("hu");
+    try {
+      notify({
+        message: msg("settings.takeout.read", {
+          name: raw("watch-history.json"),
+          count: 12345,
+          n: { number: 12345 },
+        }),
+      });
+    } finally {
+      await i18n.changeLanguage("en");
+    }
+    const english = i18n.getFixedT("en")("settings.takeout.read", {
+      name: "watch-history.json",
+      count: 12345,
+      n: "12,345",
+    });
+    expect(logged("ui.notify").map((e) => e.msg)).toEqual([english]);
+  });
+
   it("records the blocking error dialog", () => {
     reportError("The server refused", "Couldn't save");
     expect(logged("ui.error_dialog")).toMatchObject([