Russian character selection displays literal numbered placeholders, and character creation uses English race/class names even when its descriptions are translated. Resolve display names from the selected ChrRaces/ChrClasses DBCs and use the existing numbered-argument formatter for roster rows and deletion prompts.
Creature caches were always written and accepted as enUS. Write the selected client locale into the header and reject caches from another language, allowing the server to answer fresh NPC-name queries.
Reference: the supplied ruRU pack has CHARACTER_SELECT_INFO ordered as class then level, and its DBC name slots contain the Russian labels. The deployed server has 9,755 Russian NPC names; existing local caches contain 101 English-only NPC records. The reported quest giver is Guard Thomas (261), starting quest 37; its Russian name exists in the deployed database.
Validation: ten targeted Windows checks passed against the supplied archives with data required and no skips. All automated land gates passed: formatting, clippy, tests with and without installed data, player-build tests, documentation and enforcers. The 31 optional addon-corpus tests skip because the vanilla addon/Quiver corpus is unavailable. Tests cover real ruRU roster rows including ghosts, Human/Warrior and Tauren/Druid creation headers, changing class-button labels, deletion text without deleting, English fallback, and cache rejection across enUS/ruRU. Windows only. No unattended game login was performed because this checkout has no declared probe account.
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