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Localization parity

Last reviewed: 2026-10-11 · Last updated: 2026-10-20 · Change: minor (Hungarian review corrections; 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-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.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 four 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.

Other shipped languages

Language Code UI strings translated Status
Hungarian hu 1,917 entries + 4 context captions (2026-10-20); 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.

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
2026-10-11 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)