# Localization parity

> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-11 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-23 · **Change:** minor (Hungarian catalog test integration; older catalog counts retain their dated measurement) · **Target:** Adobe InDesign 2026 (21.6)

Per-language status of the DesignCraft interface and of document typesetting in each script.
Script-specific typesetting detail: [cjk.md](cjk.md), [cjk-typography.md](cjk-typography.md),
[arabic-typography.md](arabic-typography.md). Overall numbers: [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md).

**Dimension score: ~45% ready (estimated), 120–180 h** plus native-speaker review (human).

## How it was measured

Interface strings live in `crates/ui-egui/src/i18n.rs` (a shared table with German, French,
Spanish, Japanese and Simplified Chinese columns) and `crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/{ar,cs,de,fr,hu,it,ja,ka,pl,pt_br,ru,uk}.rs`.
Untranslated strings fall back to English. A script (2026-10-10) built the set of English
interface strings as the union of every catalog's keys, every engine command label and every
literal passed to `tr`/`t` in the UI crate: **1,724 strings**. A further ~145 capitalized literals
in the UI crate appear in no catalog (some are test data or proper names), so the true total is
somewhat higher and every percentage below is a slight overestimate. Help: DesignCraft has no
help content in any language (Help ▸ opens the project's pages).

InDesign 2026 ships 25 interface localizations (`.lproj` folders: cs, da, de, el, en, en_GB, es,
fi, fr, hu, it, ja, ko, nb, nl, pl, pt, ro, ru, sq, sv, tr, uk, zh_CN, zh_TW); Arabic and Hebrew
come as Middle East editions with an English or French interface and right-to-left features.

## Key languages

| Language | Code | InDesign 2026 UI | UI strings translated | Dialogs / tooltips / help | Script support (documents and UI) | Native review | Status | To `full` (h) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | en | ✓ | 1,724 / 1,724 (100%) | all / all / none | Latin ✓ | yes | full | 0 |
| Simplified Chinese (Mandarin) | zh | ✓ (zh_CN) | 1,438 (83%) | menus, panels, most dialogs; tooltips partly; no help | CJK typesetting ✓ (cjk.md); canvas IME ✓, not checked by hand with a system IME (#322); CJK UI font not embedded in release builds, so boxes on Linux (#332) | no | partial | 25–40 |
| Spanish | es | ✓ | 1,438 (83%) | menus, panels, most dialogs; no help | Latin ✓; Spanish hyphenation ✓ (#222) | no | partial | 5–8 |
| Hindi | hi | ✗ | 0 (0%) | none | Devanagari shaped by harfrust in documents but untested; no Hindi hyphenation or spelling | no | none | 20–30 |
| Arabic | ar | Middle East edition (English/French UI) | 1,459 (85%) | menus, panels, most dialogs; no help | RTL UI text (`rtl.rs`: bidi + shaping); Arabic composition, kashida, digits, RTL stories and tables ✓ (arabic-typography.md); list bullets and multi-column RTL open (#100) | no | partial | 15–25 |
| French | fr | ✓ | 1,438 (83%) | menus, panels, most dialogs; no help | Latin ✓; no French hyphenation | no | partial | 6–10 |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | pt-br | ✓ (pt) | 1,057 (61%) | menus, panels, some dialogs; no help | Latin ✓; Portuguese hyphenation ✓ | no | partial | 8–12 |
| Indonesian | id | ✗ | 0 (0%) | none | Latin ✓ | no | none | 12–18 |
| Japanese | ja | ✓ | 1,644 (95%) | whole interface (#272), vertical-type commands; no help | vertical text, kinsoku, aki, ruby, warichu ✓ (partial depth, cjk.md); canvas IME ✓, not checked by hand (#322); Japanese UI and Mincho fonts from craft-fonts | no | partial | 6–10 (+ IME checks, shared with zh) |
| German | de | ✓ | 1,438 (83%) | menus, panels, most dialogs; no help | Latin ✓; no German hyphenation (InDesign ships 2006 reform patterns) | no | partial | 6–10 |
| Korean | ko | ✓ | 0 (0%) | none | Korean line breaking at spaces ✓; canvas IME ✓, not checked by hand (#322) | no | none | 15–25 |
| Vietnamese | vi | ✗ | 0 (0%) | none | Latin with stacked diacritics via harfrust, untested | no | none | 12–18 |

Percentages are of the 1,724 measured strings. A language is `full` only when every user-visible
string is translated and its script renders and edits correctly; none but English is.

Japanese follow-up (2026-10-11): print ranges, imported style handling, the built-in `(import)`
caption, table row/column movement and row-height distribution now use the existing translation
catalog. Print, import options and an active table were rendered in Japanese and English with
craft-fonts. The language totals above retain their dated measurement; this is a targeted fix.

Hungarian follow-up (2026-10-17): `hu.rs` adds **1,917 entries and two context-specific
captions**, including the 37 tool names. This is a partial interface catalog based on an earlier
source snapshot, not a new coverage measurement against current main. It was prepared with AI
assistance and initially reviewed by a native Hungarian contributor with over 30 years of DTP
experience; further terminology and in-context review is welcome. Preferences lists `Magyar`;
untranslated/new strings fall back to English. Hungarian spelling and hyphenation are separate
follow-up work and are not enabled by selecting this interface language.
Review corrections (2026-10-20) distinguish numbers from counts and text columns from grid
columns, use formal Hungarian address consistently, and align translated menu paths with
their visible labels. These corrections do not add new catalog keys or change coverage.
Test integration (2026-10-23) registers Hungarian in the shared catalog checks and restores
assertions from both merge parents. The catalog now has **1,904 entries and four context
captions** after removing 11 untranslated interface-language names (the selector displays their
native names directly) and two unused internal tint keys. Seventeen live UI labels are retained
and added to the integrity test's known-label list. No used Hungarian translation was removed.

## Other shipped languages

| Language | Code | UI strings translated | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hungarian | hu | 1,904 entries + 4 context captions (2026-10-23); initial native review | partial |
| Czech | cs | 1,722 (99%), plural categories handled | partial |
| Italian | it | 1,464 (85%) | partial |
| Ukrainian | uk | 1,432 (83%), plural categories handled | partial |
| Polish | pl | 1,717 (99%), count captions category-first; AI-drafted, awaiting native review | partial |
| Georgian | ka | 1,724 (~100%: every catalog key plus the command labels the others lack), count captions as `noun: n` | partial (reviewed by a native speaker) |

DesignCraft ships **6** interface languages beyond the twelve; InDesign ships 17 beyond its
eight of the twelve (cs, da, el, en_GB, fi, hu, it, nb, nl, pl, ro, ru, sq, sv, tr, uk, zh_TW).

## Document languages

InDesign 2026 hyphenates and spell-checks ~40 languages (Hunspell and Duden dictionaries).
DesignCraft hyphenates **English, Spanish, Portuguese and Norwegian** and spell-checks **English** only. Text language
can be set per paragraph and character (Properties, Character panel) and drives quotes and
locale shaping. See [typography-parity.md](typography-parity.md).

## Remaining effort

| Work | Opus 5.5 h |
|---|---|
| Fill the 83–85% catalogs (de, fr, es, zh, ar, it, uk; ~290 strings each) | 25–40 |
| pt-BR to full | 8–12 |
| New: Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Vietnamese (1,724 strings, plural rules, tests) | 50–75 |
| Canvas IME (zh, ja, ko): checks by hand with system IMEs, and fixes | 10–20 |
| CJK UI font in every release build; Devanagari and Vietnamese rendering tests | 10–15 |
| Catalog completeness test: every `tr` key and command label present in every catalog | 4–8 |
| Help content (at least English, then the twelve) | 15–25 |
| **Total** | **120–180** + native-speaker review for 11 languages (human) |

## Revision history

| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-20 | minor | Hungarian review: four context captions, formal address, consistent menu paths; corrected other-language count to six |
| 2026-10-17 | minor | Hungarian (`hu`) interface added: 1,917 entries and two context captions; initial native-speaker review |
| 2026-10-23 | minor | Hungarian test integration restored; 1,904 active catalog entries and four context captions after removing unused keys |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Localized Japanese print, import and table controls; checked Japanese and English renders |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | Georgian (`ka`) interface added |
| 2026-10-10 | major | Created: catalogs measured (1,724 strings), the twelve key languages plus Italian and Ukrainian |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Czech (cs) added: 1,722 strings, plural categories handled |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | Polish interface added (1,717 strings) |