From 6caac50138408bf8f9edefa7ad61ed275a274996 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arnold Wender <arnold.wender@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:37:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix(i18n): use Optional[str] for Python 3.9 compatibility

PEP 604 union syntax (str | None) requires Python 3.10+. The project
supports 3.9 per CI matrix, so use typing.Optional instead.
---
 mempalace/i18n/__init__.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mempalace/i18n/__init__.py b/mempalace/i18n/__init__.py
index 564bf2c..b76ba19 100644
--- a/mempalace/i18n/__init__.py
+++ b/mempalace/i18n/__init__.py
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ and the README section "Adding a new language" for the schema.
 
 import json
 from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Optional
 
 _LANG_DIR = Path(__file__).parent
 _strings: dict = {}
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@ _current_lang: str = "en"
 _entity_cache: dict = {}
 
 
-def _canonical_lang(lang: str) -> str | None:
+def _canonical_lang(lang: str) -> Optional[str]:
     """Resolve a language code to its on-disk canonical filename stem.
 
     BCP 47 tags are case-insensitive (RFC 5646 §2.1.1), and the locale