updated technical i18n documentation for sveltekit-i18n

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@@ -2,21 +2,20 @@
 
 _NOTE: This documentation was written for people with a technical background. If you do not have a technical background, consider reading [this guide](./i18n.md) instead._
 
-Last Updated: 2022-08-08
+Last Updated: 2022-08-23
 
 ## Dependencies
 
-CoinOS's internationalization system depends on the `npm` package [`svelte-i18n`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/svelte-i18n). Consider reading [its documentation](https://github.com/kaisermann/svelte-i18n/blob/HEAD/docs/Getting%20Started.md) in addition to this.
+CoinOS's internationalization system depends on the `npm` package [`sveltekit-i18n`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/sveltekit-i18n). Consider reading [its documentation](https://github.com/sveltekit-i18n/lib/tree/master/docs/README.md) in addition to this.
 
 ## Internationalization Code
 
-The main code for CoinOS's internationalization is at `src/lib/i18n.js`. When imported, it does the following:
+The main code for CoinOS's internationalization is at `src/lib/translations/index.js`. When imported, it does the following:
 
-1. Load all of the locales [asynchronously](https://github.com/kaisermann/svelte-i18n/blob/main/docs/Getting%20Started.md#32-asynchronous).
-2. Pick a locale intelligently, depending on the available locales and the navigator locale, using `pickLocale`. Specifically, if the user's locale (e.g. `en-US`) isn't available but its non-regional version (e.g. `en`) is, the system will use the non-regional locale.
-3. Initialize `svelte-i18n`.
+1. Load all of the locales asynchronously, based on .
+3. Initialize `sveltekit-i18n`.
 
-It also defines important constants, including the list of available locales and the default locale. This code is loaded by importing `$lib/i18n` in `src/routes/__layout.svelte`.
+It also defines important constants, including the list of available locales and the default locale. This code is loaded by importing `$lib/translations` in `src/routes/+layout.svelte`.  This code, which runs in the frontend, also persists the locale in `localStorage`.
 
 ## Locale Files
 
@@ -34,14 +33,12 @@ Each locale in `coinos-ui-v2` is defined by a JSON file in `src/locales`. Its na
 
 ## Internationalizing Strings
 
-Strings are internationalized by simply using `svelte-i18n`'s [`$format`](https://github.com/kaisermann/svelte-i18n/blob/96a5adab7560249c8881e0612454e01c09273400/docs/Formatting.md) function. A localized string looks like this:
+Strings are internationalized by simply using `sveltekit-i18n`'s `$t` function. A localized string looks like this:
 
 ```
 {$t('stringID')}
 ```
 
-(`$_` is a convenient alias for `$format`.)
-
 ## The Locale Selector
 
 CoinOS also has a `LocaleSelector` component, which should be used to select locales. It is a dropdown that allows you to select & update the locale.
@@ -51,4 +48,5 @@ CoinOS also has a `LocaleSelector` component, which should be used to select loc
 CoinOS has a Python script that helps you with the technical parts of translation. It is located at `src/locales/guided_translation.py`. It also has some utility functions:
 
 - `nested_dict_keys` - gets a list of keys of a nested dictionary in dot-separated shallow format (e.g. a.b.c)
+- `create_locale` - adds a new locale to the lang.json file
 - `localize_string` - localizes a string interactively