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Adds the 1,287 rows the other catalogs have and Italian lacked (filter and adjustment parameters and choices, Camera Raw, Lighting Effects, History and Layers labels, metadata, dialogs), fixes mistranslations in existing rows (Facet, Gradient stops, Save As Preset, Canvas, Spot Color) and uses one term per concept (Predefinito, Traccia, clic, scorciatoia, filmato). Factors the Korean generated-label check into missing_generated_filter_labels and runs it for Italian too. Adds docs/localization-it.md and updates localization-parity.
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Localization parity
Last reviewed: 2026-10-10 · Last updated: 2026-10-11 · Change: minor (Italian dynamic labels; previously minor: Czech review follow-ups) · Target: Adobe Photoshop 2026
Per-language status of PhotoCraft's UI. How catalogs work and how to add one:
localization.md. Language notes: Korean, Spanish,
Simplified Chinese, Italian.
How measured. cargo xtask i18n-coverage (xtask/src/i18n_coverage.rs) defines the key
universe: tl!("…") literals and trn( plurals in ui-egui (tests excluded), menu-catalog
labels and path segments, menus.rs UI commands, and engine CommandSpec labels and menu paths:
1,608 English keys on 2026-10-10. Each catalog (crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/<code>.tsv) was
checked against that universe by a source script replicating the xtask (no build). Catalogs hold
more rows than the universe because they also translate dynamic tl!(expr) strings (~159 call
sites the tool can't enumerate). Not covered anywhere: engine error and status messages and
filter parameter help, which are English in every language; so no language is full.
Photoshop 2026 ships UI language packs for cs, da, de, en, es, fi, fr (and fr-CA), hu, it,
ja, ko, nb, nl, pl, pt-BR, ru, sk, sv, tr, uk, zh-Hans, zh-Hant (24 .lproj markers; one pack is
installed per Creative Cloud install, here en_US). It has no Hindi, Arabic, Indonesian or
Vietnamese UI; Arabic and Hebrew users get English "Middle East" builds with the World-Ready
composer, and its text engine handles RTL, Devanagari and Indic scripts.
Summary. 7 of the 12 key languages at 100% of measured keys (status partial because of the
engine messages), 3 absent (Hindi, Arabic, Vietnamese), plus 8 other languages. Weighted by
speakers, ~55% ready. Remaining: 80–140 h, plus native-speaker review (none recorded for any
catalog).
The twelve key languages
| Language | Code | UI strings (measured keys) | Catalog rows | Dialogs / tooltips / help | Script support | Native review | Status | To full |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | en |
1,608 / 1,608 (100%) | source | all | Latin | – | full | 0 h |
| Simplified Chinese | zh-hans |
1,608 / 1,608 (100%) | 2,366 | dialogs, tooltips yes; engine messages English | CJK fonts (lazy loader), IME preedit/commit, vertical type | no | partial | 8–12 h |
| Spanish | es |
1,608 / 1,608 (100%) | 2,413 | as above | Latin | no | partial | 6–10 h |
| Hindi | hi |
0 (0%) | – | – | Devanagari shaping in the text engine (parley/HarfRust); no Devanagari fallback font (TYPE-218-3) | no | none | 20–30 h |
| Arabic | ar |
0 (0%) | – | – | Arabic shaping and bidi in the text engine, Arabic fallback font; RTL shell layout but not inside panels, and UI labels in LTR word order (DIST-220-4), paragraph direction has no UI (TYPE-218-2), layer names as tofu (#1408, #1693) | no | none | 40–60 h |
| French | fr |
1,608 / 1,608 (100%) | 2,766 | as above | Latin | no | partial | 6–10 h |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | pt-br |
1,608 / 1,608 (100%) | 2,788 | as above | Latin; every pt locale uses it |
no | partial | 6–10 h |
| Indonesian | id |
1,608 / 1,608 (100%) | 2,764 | as above | Latin | no | partial | 6–10 h |
| Japanese | ja |
1,608 / 1,608 (100%) | 3,356 | as above | CJK fonts, IME (Windows IME broken, #590), vertical type (tategaki); installed Japanese fonts missing from the list (#2330) | no | partial | 10–16 h |
| German | de |
1,608 / 1,608 (100%) | 2,400 | as above | Latin | no | partial | 6–10 h |
| Korean | ko |
1,608 / 1,608 (100%) | 2,936 | as above; terminology from Photoshop's Korean UI (notes) | Hangul fonts, IME | no | partial | 6–10 h |
| Vietnamese | vi |
0 (0%) | – | – | Latin with stacked diacritics (shaping supported) | no | none | 12–18 h |
Other shipped languages
8 more, each at 1,608 / 1,608 measured keys, status partial for the same reason: Traditional
Chinese zh-hant (2,329 rows), Russian ru (2,544), Ukrainian uk (3,375), Czech cs (3,522),
Polish pl (3,366), Greek el (3,481), Dutch nl (3,568), Italian it (3,928; also every dynamic label the
other catalogs translate, notes).
Czech UI follow-up (2026-10-11): status and notice wrappers, hardware labels, brush and
transform accessibility names, rasterization prompts, profile mismatch messages and preset
counts now translate at their render/assignment sites. Navigator's zoom level uses a context
(Zvětšení), while the tool remains Lupa. Engine errors, profile/file/document names stay
verbatim; copied System Info and control API diagnostics remain English while their on-screen
labels translate. Import warning counts use parentheses in Czech. New dynamic templates fall
back to English in catalogs without entries. This is additional UI coverage, not a claim that
engine localization or native review is complete.
Cross-language gaps
- Engine error, status and parameter-help messages are English in every language.
- Right-to-left UI layout is partial (2026-10-10): the shell mirrors for Arabic, Hebrew, Persian,
Urdu and other right-to-left codes (
direction.rs), but panel interiors, dialogs, menu rows, submenus and document tabs stay left to right. UI labels also lack an Arabic fallback font, and egui 0.36 joins letters within a word but orders a line's words left to right (no bidi). - Web build: no browser-locale detection, no CJK web fonts.
- WebAssembly plug-ins disappear from Filter › Plug-ins when the UI isn't English (#2540).
- A user couldn't find the language option (#2532): it is in Preferences › Interface.
Revision history
| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-10 | major | First version, measured from the catalogs with the i18n-coverage rules |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Right-to-left shell layout (menu bar, title, options and status bars, toolbox and dock sides) |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Czech dynamic status/notice and hardware text, render labels and Navigator zoom context; engine messages remain English |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Czech review follow-ups: English System Info diagnostics, id-aware shortcut labels, display-only auto translation, warning punctuation and wording; catalog row count refreshed |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Italian: 1,287 dynamic labels added (filter parameters, Camera Raw, lighting, panels, dialogs) and terminology made consistent |