Localizing topic does not seem to localize excerpt pinned on topic list

[nat (Natalie T)]

This has been fixed with

• FIX: Update topic excerpts when the first post is localized by nattsw · Pull Request #36885 · discourse/discourse · GitHub
• and also DEV: Add rake task to backfill localization excerpts which were empty by nattsw · Pull Request #36901 · discourse/discourse · GitHub

@m_terenui

Example of similar issue on meta.discourse.org as I have on my own instance:
Support - Discourse Meta looking at the “About the Support category” pinned topic. Switching language to french

This should also be fixed

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One thing to note though for self-hosters with missing localized excerpts: you will need to update, then run the following rake task ^[1] in your console

bundle exec rake topic_localizations:backfill_excerpts

## or possibly with sudo
sudo -E -u discourse bundle exec rake topic_localizations:backfill_excerpts

so that the empty localized excerpts may be populated.

Alternatively if the rake task is not possible, a more manual way is to re-translate the first post of topics that are affected.

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1. Some might ask - “Why not a migration which is automatic?”, because we use PrettyText here for the excerpts, and as usual we do try to avoid application code in migrations. ↩︎