fix(i18n): clear _PYI_APPLICATION_HOME_DIR (correct env var for PyI 6.x)#50
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Follow-up to #49. PyInstaller 6.x renamed the temp-extraction handoff env var from _MEIPASS2 to _PYI_APPLICATION_HOME_DIR. Verified by extracting strings from the runw.exe bootloader shipped with PyInstaller 6.19. Clearing only _MEIPASS2 had no effect on modern builds, so the language-change relaunch crash could still surface. Clear both names (legacy + current) so the fix works regardless of the PyInstaller version we ship with. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…unch (#57) PR #50 cleared _PYI_APPLICATION_HOME_DIR but left _PYI_PARENT_PROCESS_LEVEL and _PYI_ARCHIVE_FILE inherited. The child bootloader sees _PYI_PARENT_PROCESS_LEVEL=1 from the parent, concludes it is a phase-2 (child-phase) launch, then tries to read _PYI_APPLICATION_HOME_DIR — which we cleared — and aborts with _PYI_APPLICATION_HOME_DIR environment variable is not defined! Switch to a pattern-based clear that removes anything matching _PYI_* or _MEIPASS*, so the relaunched process truly starts fresh and is robust against future PyInstaller versions adding new internal vars. Verified locally with a build + smoke test + relaunch simulation. Bumps APP_VERSION to 1.13.11. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Follow-up to #49. PyInstaller 6.x renamed the env var that drives the temp-extraction handoff between parent and child from `_MEIPASS2` to `_PYI_APPLICATION_HOME_DIR`. The original PR cleared only the legacy name, which has no effect on the build we actually ship (PyInstaller 6.19).
Evidence
```
$ strings venv/Lib/site-packages/PyInstaller/bootloader/Windows-64bit-intel/runw.exe
| grep -i 'meipass|pyi_application'
_PYI_APPLICATION_HOME_DIR
_PYI_APPLICATION_HOME_DIR environment variable is not defined!
Failed to get _MEIPASS as PyObject.
_MEIPASS
```
No reference to `_MEIPASS2` in the modern bootloader. `_MEIPASS` is read inside Python (sys._MEIPASS) but isn't the inter-process handoff variable.
Fix
Clear both env var names before `startDetached()`:
So the fix works regardless of which PyInstaller version we ship with.
Why ship inside v1.13.10 (not bump again)
Tag `v1.13.10` has not been pushed yet — main is still in the pre-release window. No need to bump version twice.
Test plan
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