Nikita RakitinandCursor
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The preedit was already stored in the cell. It is now laid out the same way the cell is drawn, and the editor underlines it in place, thicker under the part being converted. The caret and the input method's candidate window sit in that cell. Notes stay an egui text field. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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Localization parity with PowerPoint
Last reviewed: 2026-10-14 · Last updated: 2026-10-14 · Change: minor (IME composition underlined in table cells; previous: minor, IME composition and CJK interface text, #101; previous: major, created) · Target: Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 16.113 (Microsoft 365)
DeckCraft's interface is English only today: strings are literals in the UI and engine code, with no catalog and no language switch. Requests: #15 (follow the system language), #30 and PR #34 (Ukrainian, open). Dimension score: ~8% ready (estimated: English complete, slide-text script support partly there), 55–90 h to parity plus native-speaker review.
How the numbers are measured
- UI strings: ~1,050 user-visible string literals (measured 2026-10-10: distinct
capitalized literals in
crates/ui-egui/src,crates/engine/src/cmdandcrates/model/src, including the 226 command labels). A catalog will refine the count; until then percentages are against this figure. - Script support is about slide text (what users type and import), separately from the UI:
bidi and shaping live in
crates/text(UAX #9, HarfRust, UAX #14 line breaking). - PowerPoint's languages:
Contents/Resources/*.lprojin PowerPoint 16.113.4: ar, cs, da, de, el, en, en_GB, es, es_MX, fi, fr, fr_CA, he, hu, id, it, ja, ko, nl, no, pl, pt (Brazil), pt_PT, ru, sk, sv, th, tr, zh_CN, zh_TW (26 languages). PowerPoint for Mac has no Hindi or Vietnamese UI; PowerPoint for Windows has both.
The twelve key languages
| Language | Code | UI strings translated | Dialogs / tooltips / help | Script support (slide text) | Native review | Status | PowerPoint for Mac UI | Hours to full |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | en | ~1,050 / ~1,050 (100%) | yes / yes / no help | full | yes | full | yes | 0 |
| Simplified Chinese (Mandarin) | zh-Hans | 0 (0%) | no | renders with system CJK fonts (asset policy excludes Noto CJK from builds); UAX #14 breaking; IME composition (#101); no true vertical layout | no | none | yes | 6–10 (incl. IME) |
| Spanish | es | 0 (0%) | no | full (Latin) | no | none | yes (es, es-MX) | 3–5 |
| Hindi | hi | 0 (0%) | no | Devanagari shaping through HarfRust, untested; no bundled Devanagari font | no | none | no (Windows only) | 4–7 |
| Arabic | ar | 0 (0%) | no | bidi, contextual shaping, kashida justification, RTL bullets and caret (#4); UI not mirrored; browser export shows boxes (#81) | no | none | yes | 10–16 (incl. UI mirroring) |
| French | fr | 0 (0%) | no | full (Latin) | no | none | yes (fr, fr-CA) | 3–5 |
| Portuguese | pt | 0 (0%) | no | full (Latin) | no | none | yes (pt-BR, pt-PT) | 3–5 |
| Indonesian | id | 0 (0%) | no | full (Latin) | no | none | yes | 3–5 |
| Japanese | ja | 0 (0%) | no | renders with system or craft-fonts Japanese faces; IME composition (#101); vertical text is rotated, not laid out vertically | no | none | yes | 4–7 |
| German | de | 0 (0%) | no | full (Latin) | no | none | yes | 3–5 |
| Korean | ko | 0 (0%) | no | system Hangul fonts, in the interface too; IME composition (#101) | no | none | yes | 4–7 |
| Vietnamese | vi | 0 (0%) | no | stacked diacritics through HarfRust | no | none | no (Windows only) | 3–5 |
Other languages shipped: 0 (Ukrainian is in review as PR #34). PowerPoint for Mac ships 16 more than the twelve above: Czech, Danish, Greek, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Thai, Turkish and Traditional Chinese.
Per-language hours assume the infrastructure exists: 8–14 h once for a string catalog (copy a
sibling app's approach, e.g. EffectCraft's menu and panel catalogs), a language setting that follows
the system (#15), plural and number formatting, and an xtask check that every key has a
translation. IME composition landed with #101 (slide text, table cells, notes and text fields;
one undo step per composition, underlined in place); the hours that included it are kept until
the next re-measure.
Proofing languages
PowerPoint checks spelling in dozens of languages and lets each run carry a proofing language.
DeckCraft keeps a:rPr/@lang on round trip but its spelling check is a small English list of
common misspellings (crates/engine/src/cmd/review.rs); see gaps.md.
Revision history
| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-14 | minor | IME composition in a table cell is underlined in place; the candidate window sits on that cell's caret |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | IME composition for Chinese, Japanese and Korean, and interface text in any installed script (#101) |
| 2026-10-10 | major | Created: twelve-language table, ~1,050 UI strings measured, PowerPoint for Mac's 26 languages from its bundle |