- **Japanese (`ja`) and Korean (`ko`) draft catalogs** (`crates/ui-egui/locales/ja.toml`, `ko.toml`): every UI string (1,351 keys), command label (519) and menu wording (29), machine-drafted from our English (Japanese: concise, no desu/masu endings, full-width punctuation where Japanese UI text uses it; Korean: no hamnida endings, instructions in -seyo). Placeholders identical to English, `|context` keys translated per context, plural entries give only `other`. Marked `status = "draft - needs native review"` and registered as drafts (not in `COMPLETE`), like fr/de/pt-BR.
- **Plurals:** `plural_one` returns false for ja and ko (always "other").
- **Language picker and detection:** Preferences > Language lists the two languages by their own names; System picks `ja*` / `ko*` from the OS language list; `pref.language` doc lists `ja|ko` (engine spec and docs/mcp.md).
- **CJK UI fonts** (`crates/ui-egui/src/cjk.rs`): egui's fonts and Inter have no CJK glyphs. After the existing system font scan, the desktop app works out which CJK scripts (kana, Hangul, Han) the UI shows: the UI language's, the language picker's while Preferences is open, typed/IME text, and the open file's names and comments (re-read when the tab's revision changes, not mid-drag, and never again once all three scripts have a face). For each needed script it appends one face to egui's fallback list, the UI language's script first: Windows Yu Gothic UI / Meiryo / Malgun Gothic / Microsoft YaHei, macOS Hiragino Sans / Apple SD Gothic Neo / PingFang SC, Linux/BSD Noto Sans CJK, Source Han Sans, Nanum, WenQuanYi; the craft-fonts build's embedded BIZ UDPGothic is tried first (free). Han without kana outside a Japanese/Korean UI reads as Chinese (Chinese faces first). English users load no CJK face. No font files are added to the repo.
- **Read once, share the bytes:** new `FontDb::find_one` reads only the one face a fallback needs instead of every file of the family (Yu Gothic UI is 4 files of ~14 MB); `theme::font_data` hands egui the font database's shared bytes instead of copying them (also used for the existing Hebrew/Arabic fallbacks). The scan's existing 64 MB per-file cap applies. Any failure degrades to the previous behaviour (tofu at worst), never a panic.
- **Web:** no system fonts there. `crates/text/build.rs` now embeds craft-fonts' Noto Sans CJK into the wasm build when `FIGCRAFT_EMBED_CJK` is set (it covers kana, Hangul and Han; +16 MB) and reruns when that variable changes. Without it, `cjk::can_show` keeps ja/ko out of the picker and out of System detection, so Japanese and Korean browser users keep the English UI instead of boxes. Nothing is fetched from the network.
- **Docs:** localization-parity (rows, CJK UI fonts section, totals, revision), translating (catalog list, CJK conventions, fonts, plural note), target-app-parity, ROADMAP, gaps (gap 5), roadmap (focus 4), mcp.md. Localization 30% -> 35% (graded low: unreviewed drafts), 40-65 h -> 32-55 h; ready for real work ~52% -> ~53% (52.9 -> 53.1 by the dimension table); full parity ~284-554 h -> ~276-544 h; beta ~162-292 h -> ~155-280 h.
- New UI catalogs `crates/ui-egui/locales/fr.toml`, `de.toml` and `pt-BR.toml`: every UI string (1,351 keys, 36 with plural forms), every command label (519) and every main-menu wording (29) translated, 1,899 entries each. Machine-drafted from our English, marked `status = "draft - needs native review"` like Spanish, so Preferences shows the draft note. Placeholders are identical to English; `|context` keys are translated per context (sizing "Fill", stroke "Join", glass "Light", open comments).
- Language conventions: French uses no-break spaces (` `) before `: ; ? !`, inside guillemets and before `%`; German uses formal address and German quotes; Brazilian Portuguese uses Brazilian vocabulary (arquivo, salvar, tela, voce).
- Not added to `COMPLETE`: that list forces every later PR to translate new strings into each complete language, so the three drafts are registered as incomplete and fall back to English per key; Spanish stays the only enforced language. `docs/translating.md` says so and how to list what a draft lacks.
- Plurals: `plural_one` now takes 0 as singular for French and Brazilian Portuguese (CLDR integer rules); English, Spanish and German stay `n == 1`.
- Language choice: Preferences > Language lists Francais, Deutsch and Portugues (Brasil) by their own names (from the catalogs). System now walks the OS's preferred-language list and takes the first language with a catalog: Windows' full `GlobalizationPreferences.Languages`, all of macOS's `AppleLanguages`, gettext's `LANGUAGE` then the locale variables on Linux/BSD; the browser still uses `navigator.language`. A tag with only a regional catalog reads it (`pt-PT`, `pt` -> `pt-BR`). `pref.language` docs list `fr|de|pt-BR`.
- Overflow (German is the longest): `widgets::dropdown` now keeps its label on one line, ending it with an ellipsis and showing it in full on hover (it used to wrap mid-word, e.g. the auto layout sizing and stacking dropdowns); `elided_dropdown` merged into it. Two-column sublabels in the right panel and the home screen's cards elide the same way. English is unchanged.
- Docs: localization-parity (languages, string counts, status, hours), translating, target-app-parity, ROADMAP, gaps (gap 5), roadmap (current focus 4), mcp. Localization 20% -> 30%, 45-75 h -> 40-65 h; ready for real work stays ~52%; full parity ~289-564 h -> ~284-554 h; beta ~170-305 h -> ~162-292 h.
UI strings come from per-language TOML catalogs compiled in (English text as the key and fallback, named placeholders, one/other plurals, context suffixes); command labels are translated at display time while ids, CLI, MCP and control output stay English; accessibility names follow. Preferences > Language (System / English / Español, live; the system language from the OS or the browser), pref.language for scripts. A key check test guards the catalogs. The Spanish catalog is a machine draft awaiting native review; docs/translating.md explains adding a language.
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