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Localization parity
Last reviewed: 2026-10-11 · Last updated: 2026-11-01 · Change: minor (Hungarian interface catalog, bundled-font coverage and flyout regression checks) · 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-typography.md, arabic-typography.md. Overall numbers: 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/table.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).
Missing translations normally fall back to English and are reported without blocking a build.
Targeted regression tests can require specific captions, such as the Data Merge arrangement
label, in every registered interface language. cargo xtask i18n-report (also a step of
cargo xtask ci, so the list is in every gate log) prints how many interface strings each
language lacks, then the strings.
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 ✓; French hyphenation ✓ (hyph-fr) | 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 ✓; German 2006 hyphenation ✓ (hyph-de-1996, MIT) | 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 interface (2026-11-01): hu.rs contains 1,906 entries and four context-specific
captions, including all 37 tool names. The initial catalog was prepared with AI assistance
and personally reviewed in the app by Veress Róbert, a native Hungarian speaker with over
30 years of DTP experience. Further terminology and in-context feedback is welcome. This is a
partial catalog, not a new coverage measurement against current main: uncatalogued strings
fall back to English. Preferences lists Magyar; interface selection does not enable the
separate spelling and hyphenation work in #1484.
The interface uses bundled Source Sans 3 Regular and Source Sans 3 Semibold; monospace
labels use JetBrains Mono Regular (assets/fonts/, registered by theme::font_definitions).
hungarian_catalog_glyphs_exist_in_the_bundled_ui_fonts checks the actual configured font
bytes, every Latin letter used by the catalog and all Hungarian accented vowels in both cases,
including ŐőŰű, with system and optional craft-fonts fallbacks disabled. No new font asset
or font dependency is needed.
Hungarian regressions cover placeholder/context integrity, formal address and count/column terminology, language persistence, matching menu paths, translated tool labels and real right-click flyouts in both Tools-panel layouts. Narrow-window coverage exercises horizontal scrolling, complete label/shortcut accessibility and selecting a scrolled row at 180 and 240 points; the existing wide-window checks keep their assertions.
Other shipped languages
| Language | Code | UI strings translated | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hungarian | hu | 1,906 entries + 4 context captions (2026-11-01); initial catalog native-reviewed | 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, Dutch, French, German (2006 reform), Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese and Spanish 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.
German hyphenation accepts German: 2006 Reform, German: Swiss 2006 Reform and de locale
codes without a spelling year or with 2006. Traditional names, de_DE_1901 and unknown
German variants have no automatic hyphenation; their German shaping and quotes are unchanged.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-01 | minor | Initial Hungarian interface: 1,906 entries, four context captions, native review, bundled-font glyph coverage and wide/narrow flyout regressions |
| 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) |
| 2026-10-22 | minor | French and Italian hyphenation (hyph-fr, hyph-it): the French row and Document languages updated |