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Fernando Areán MagánandClaude Opus 5 5fc66c4595 M14: refresh the Spanish catalog's ATTRIBUTION entry and date the parity figures
`cargo xtask assets` pins a SHA-256 for every catalog, so editing `es.tsv` left its
ATTRIBUTION.toml entry stale and `assets::tests::the_real_manifest_passes` failed on both
runners. Re-verified the file's provenance, updated the hash, recorded that the coverage
additions are AI-assisted and not separately native-reviewed -- as #2510 did for `lt` and
`vi` -- and regenerated ATTRIBUTION.md.

Review notes on docs/localization-parity.md:

- Lithuanian's `2,585 entries` was measured on 2026-10-13 and read as if `lt` were behind.
  Re-measured today it covers the whole 2,674-key union, so it is restated like `es` and `vi`.
- *How this was measured* now says outright that the union is a moving target: every change
  that adds a string widens it, a count only compares with others of the same date, and a
  catalog at 100% falls behind without losing a translation. Earlier revisions quote the
  union of their own date, not this one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-20 09:15:23 +02:00

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Localization parity

Last reviewed: 2026-10-10 · Last updated: 2026-10-13 · Change: minor (Vietnamese 100% of current key union; native-speaker community review; twelve-language mean ≈68%) · Target: Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS) Last reviewed: 2026-10-10 · Last updated: 2026-10-20 · Change: minor (Spanish 100% of the current key union) · Target: Adobe Acrobat Pro (Acrobat DC, continuous track 26.002.21931, macOS)

Per-language status of PdfCraft's interface against Acrobat Pro's. How translations work and how to add a language: localization.md. Summary in ROADMAP.md.

How this was measured

  • Strings translated is measured: the catalogs in crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/<code>.tsv, counted as distinct (context, English) keys with a non-empty translation. The denominator is the union of keys across all catalogs, counting language-specific context rows such as theme/Appearance. That union is a moving target: every change that adds a string widens it, so a count is only comparable with others measured on the same date, and a catalog that reached 100% falls behind without losing a single translation. Every figure here therefore carries its date. The current union is 2,674 keys as of 2026-10-20, against the 2,143-key snapshot of 2026-10-10; earlier revisions quote the union of their own date (see the revision history), not this one. The twelve-language percentage table below still quotes the 2026-10-10 snapshot for every language except Spanish, Vietnamese and Lithuanian, which are measured against the current union. English is built in.
  • Not counted: error details from the engine and the operating system, which are shown in English inside a translated frame; there is no translated user documentation or help yet (Acrobat ships localized help).
  • Script support comes from localization.md, the vendored winit IME patches (vendor/README.md) and user reports.
  • Native review: "community" means a native speaker contributed or corrected the catalog in a pull request or issue; "no" means no record of review. No catalog has had a formal review.
  • Acrobat ships 24 interface localizations on macOS (.lproj: cs, da, de, en, es, fi, fr, hu, it, ja, ko, nl, no, pl, pt, ru, sv, tr, uk, zh_CN, zh_TW, plus en_AE, en_IL, fr_MA) and Middle East / North Africa editions (MEA Arabic, MEH Hebrew, NAF French; Resources/Sequences/).

The twelve key languages

Language Code UI strings translated Dialogs / tooltips / help Script support Native review Status Acrobat ships it To full (h)
English en built in (100%) all; README and docs Latin yes full yes 0
Simplified Chinese zh-hans 2,088 (97.4%) dialogs and tooltips through tl!; no help CJK text and IME work, but release builds have no Hans face: many characters show as boxes (#826, #688, #728, #758; Flatpak #689) no partial yes 6–12
Spanish es 2,674 (100% of current key union) dialogs and tooltips; no help Latin no partial yes 2–4
Hindi hi 0 none Devanagari not tested (egui shapes Telugu conjuncts, so shaping is likely workable); no Devanagari face in craft-fonts no none no 10–18
Arabic ar 2,143 (100%) dialogs and tooltips; no help Letters joined and lines reordered at load, but layout not mirrored, wrapped lines break at the wrong end, typed text runs left to right (localization.md §Arabic) no partial yes (Middle East edition) 25–45
French fr 2,128 (99.3%) dialogs and tooltips; no help Latin no partial yes 1–2
Portuguese (Brazil) pt-br 2,130 (99.4%) dialogs and tooltips; no help Latin community (#288) partial yes 1–2
Indonesian id 0 none Latin no none no 3–5
Japanese ja 2,123 (99.1%) dialogs and tooltips; no help BIZ UDPGothic from craft-fonts; IME patched on macOS, Windows, X11, Wayland; vertical text renders but can't be edited no partial yes 4–8
German de 2,128 (99.3%) dialogs and tooltips; no help Latin community, in progress (#828: terminology, clipping) partial yes 2–4
Korean ko 0 none Hangul IME patched (Microsoft and Apple Korean, vendor/README.md winit 3, 6, 9, 10); no Hangul UI face in craft-fonts no none yes 6–10
Vietnamese vi 2,674 (100% of current key union) dialogs and tooltips; no help Latin with stacked diacritics; bundled Inter covers them (fonts test) community partial no 2–4

Localization dimension ≈ 68%: the mean over the twelve, counting a catalog's percentage but only 60% for Chinese and Arabic until their script problems are fixed, and 0 for Hindi, Indonesian and Korean (still missing). Vietnamese moved from 0% to 100% in that mean (59% → 68%). ≈ 55–110 h to bring all twelve to full, of which ≈ 35–60 h is engineering (Hans face, RTL layout, bidi text) and the rest catalogs and fixes; native-speaker review needs humans.

No language is full except English: every catalog leaves engine error details in English, and none has translated help. The To full hours of Vietnamese and Spanish are therefore residual help/docs polish (catalog and script work are already done), not missing UI strings.

Other shipped languages

Language Code UI strings translated Status Acrobat ships it
Traditional Chinese zh-hant 2,016 (94.1%) partial (same Hans/Hant face caveat) yes
Russian ru 2,043 (95.3%) partial yes
Bulgarian bg 2,094 (97.7%) partial no
Czech cs 135 (6.3%) menus only yes
Telugu te 2,058 (96.0%) partial (the release-pinned craft-fonts has no Telugu face yet) no
Hungarian hu 2,126 (99.2%) partial yes
Ukrainian uk 2,142 (100%) partial yes
Italian it 2,528 entries (every key of the other catalogs that the code looks up) partial yes
Kazakh kk 2,327 entries partial no
Polish pl 2,287 entries partial yes
Slovenian sl 2,324 entries partial no
Greek el 2,341 entries partial no
Turkish tr 2,313 entries partial yes
Lithuanian lt 2,674 (100% of current key union) partial; community native-speaker review (#1401) no

14 other languages ship (22 catalogs plus English = 23 interface languages in Preferences). The entry counts without percentages were measured on 2026-10-12–13; they are not percentages of the older 2,143-key snapshot above. Their presence does not imply a detailed linguistic or runtime review. Acrobat languages PdfCraft lacks: Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Hebrew. Vietnamese is shipped here but not by Acrobat. 14 other languages ship (21 catalogs plus English, 22 interface languages in Preferences). The entry counts without percentages were measured on 2026-10-12 (Italian on 2026-10-14); they are not percentages of the older 2,143-key snapshot above. Their presence does not imply a detailed linguistic or runtime review. Acrobat languages PdfCraft lacks: Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Hebrew.

Revision history

Date Change Summary
2026-10-20 minor Spanish: the 143 keys the other catalogs had and es.tsv was missing; es now covers the whole 2,674-key union, like lt and vi. Restated Lithuanian against the current union (its 2,585 was measured on 2026-10-13) and said plainly in How this was measured that the union moves, so counts only compare within a date
2026-10-13 minor Vietnamese (vi) catalog: 2,591 entries (100% of current key union + theme/Appearance); twelve-language mean ≈ 68%; native-speaker community review; registered with plural_none
2026-10-14 minor Italian: 2,528 entries after adding the 201 keys the other catalogs had and the code looks up
2026-10-12 minor Added current counts for Kazakh, Polish, Slovenian, Greek, Turkish and Lithuanian; retained existing language assessments and the original percentage snapshot
2026-10-10 major Created. Catalog counts measured from crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/*.tsv against the 2,143-key union; Acrobat's localizations from its bundle's .lproj and Sequences folder names