LosminekandClaude Opus 5.5
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Resolves conflicts in ROADMAP.md, people.toml, dialogs.rs, i18n.rs, menus.rs, panels/interactive.rs and localization-parity.md. Adds Czech entries for the strings that arrived on main (catalog covers every key again) and drops two stale ones. New terms follow the existing catalog (Náhled separací, Pomocné prvky, Uvnitř/Vně, Pravidlo pružné stránky). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Localization parity
Last reviewed: 2026-10-10 · Last updated: 2026-10-15 · Change: minor (Georgian interface; Czech catalog synchronized) · 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,it,ja,ka,pt_br,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); no canvas 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); no canvas IME (#322); Japanese UI and Mincho fonts from craft-fonts | no | partial | 6–10 (+ IME, 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 ✓; no IME (#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.
Other shipped languages
| Language | Code | UI strings translated | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Czech | cs | 1,950 catalog entries (every key in the other catalogs), plural categories handled | partial |
| Italian | it | 1,464 (85%) | partial |
| Ukrainian | uk | 1,432 (83%), plural categories handled | 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 4 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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-15 | minor | Czech catalog synchronized with upstream: 92 entries added, 2 stale entries removed; all other catalogs covered |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | Georgian (ka) interface added |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Czech (cs) added: 1,722 strings, plural categories handled |
| 2026-10-10 | major | Created: catalogs measured (1,724 strings), the twelve key languages plus Italian and Ukrainian |