* I18N.et: add Estonian interface translation * I18N.et: record the verified headless fork push step * i18n: send interface text that skipped translation through the catalog A test-only pseudo-language wraps every catalog lookup in ⟦…⟧ marks; a new audit test lays the app out in it (every tab, File page, dialog and pane, the right-click menu, and a hover and a click on every ribbon control, including the Table and Equation tabs) and fails on any visible text outside the marks. The document is drawn as an image, so only interface text is checked; document text, font and style names, shortcuts, icon lettering, contributor handles and command error messages are allowed. What it found, now translated in every language that has the strings: - Right-click menu items (Cut, Paste, Font…, Paragraph…, Link…, New Comment). - Paragraph dialog: the alignment choices showed code values (`left`); the label now sits before the dropdown. - Table Design › Table Style Options checkboxes. - Table Layout › Alignment tooltips showed code values (`topLeft`). - Design › Fonts: the theme's name is translated, its font names are not. - `pt` units, the Insert › Table grid label, the default watermark text, the font dialog's preview sample, and the untitled document's name. - Contributors and Models dialogs: headings, sort and name choices, summary. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WtHKQ7wrZm3uBuaG1Ye8po * Draw Table and Eraser: draw tables and split or merge cells with a pen (#303) Insert › Tables › Draw Table and Table Layout › Draw › Draw Table / Eraser. table.draw takes a pen stroke in page points: a rectangle outside a table inserts a one-cell table of that size at the paragraph under its start; a straight vertical or horizontal line inside a table splits the cells it crosses (new grid column or row; untouched cells span it). table.eraser merges the two cells beside the border nearest a point. Each stroke is one undo step. In the app the buttons toggle pen and eraser modes with a live preview, a crosshair with the tool's icon, and Esc to stop; canvas clicks don't move the caret while a tool is on. Splitting through part of a vertically merged cell and erasing beside one are refused with a clear error. Catalog 384/430 -> 387/430. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Draw tab: pen, pencil and highlighter ink, stroke eraser and Hide Ink (#307) Ink strokes are floating freeform shapes: a new Freeform geometry (paths in shape-local coordinates, opacity, and the pen that drew it) on InlineObject::Shape with ShapeKind::Freeform. draw.stroke inserts one anchored to the paragraph under the first point (one undo step; points capped per stroke, strokes capped per page, NaN dropped); draw.erase / draw.eraser with a point deletes the stroke under it; draw.pen, draw.pencil, draw.highlighter, draw.eraser and draw.select set the Draw tab's tool in the session view state; review.hideInk toggles showing ink on screen. The canvas draws a live stroke while a pen is dragged and commits it on release; the eraser deletes strokes it passes over (one undo step per drag); Esc or Select goes back to selecting. Draw tab buttons show the tool in use, with colour and thickness menus; Review gets an Ink group with Hide Ink. Ink renders with round caps and joins on screen and in PDF; highlighters are translucent and behind the text. DOCX writes freeforms as wps:wsp with a:custGeom (moveTo/lnTo) in a wp:anchor and reads them back, along with simple custom-geometry freeforms from other files. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * #315 review fixes: eraser undo test, sanitized tap dots, custGeom path cap, ink docs - draw.eraser with a point erases through draw.erase: test that it is one undo step (undo/redo) and marks the document dirty. - Render and PDF: a single-point stroke's dot is drawn at the sanitized point, not the raw first one. - DOCX custGeom reading stops once MAX_PATHS paths (subpaths included) are collected, across a:path elements. - docs/file-format-parity.md: ink is saved as custom geometry, not InkML, so Word shows it as a freeform. - widgets test: theme::apply takes an Appearance (#317). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * #313: catalog rows for the newly translated interface text Rows in all eight catalogs for the strings #313 now sends through the catalog (cell alignment tooltips, credits columns and summary, theme names, context-menu items, table picker, pt suffix, Document1, the Font dialog sample) and for the Table Style preview's sample table, which the untranslated-text audit flagged after main's table style editor landed. The audit runs headless (no host services: no file pickers or speech) in about 20 s, so it stays enabled. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fmt Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * i18n: Borders and Shading line widths through the catalog ({n} pt) #313's untranslated-text audit flagged main's new dialog (#327). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * land-294: Estonian rows for main's newer dialogs Define New Multilevel List and Track Changes Options (#342), rotation (#332), Tabs and Borders and Shading (#327), Columns, Symbol and Field (#335): et keys equal es again. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * i18n audit: run on demand (#[ignore]) until its rare failure under load is understood It failed once in ~46 runs on a heavily loaded machine and passed 35 straight reruns, so CI shouldn't depend on it yet. Run it with --ignored. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Dmitrii Khlapov <19991457+dkhlapov@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: vangel76 <vangel1976@googlemail.com> Co-authored-by: Brandon Thomas <echelon@gmail.com>
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Localization parity with Microsoft Word
Last reviewed: 2026-10-10 · Last updated: 2026-10-10 · Change: major (first version; catalogs measured from
crates/ui-egui/src/i18n, Word's languages from its bundle listing) · Target: Microsoft Word (Microsoft 365) for Mac 16.113.4
Interface languages, script support and proofing per language. How translation works (catalog
format, adding a language, clean-room rule): crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/mod.rs.
Dimension: ~25% (estimated), 80–130 h to full for the twelve key languages plus ~50 h for the other ~18 languages Word ships, plus native-speaker review (human).
What Word ships (measured by listing the bundle)
- 30 interface languages (31
.lprojfolders incl. Base): ar, cs, da, de, el, en, en-GB, es, es-MX, fi, fr, fr-CA, he, hu, id, it, ja, ko, nl, no, pl, pt (BR), pt-PT, ru, sk, sv, th, tr, zh-CN, zh-TW. Arabic and Hebrew get a mirrored interface. No Hindi or Vietnamese interface on Mac. - 120 proofing tools (
SharedSupport/Proofing Tools): spellers for ~50 languages, grammar checkers for ~20, hyphenators for ~16, thesauri for ~20.
What WordCraft ships (measured)
- 10 interface languages: English plus
zh-hans,zh-hant,ja,uk,es,pt-br, Serbiansr/sr-latn(#250), and Estonianet(1,161 entries). Catalogs have ~1,100–1,160 entries each. A test (every_tab_and_command_is_translated) enforces that every ribbon tab, command label and ribbon location is translated in every language. - Of the 675 English strings a scan extracts from
tl!(…)calls and command labels/locations, each catalog covers 661 (98%). Some newer dialog and pane strings (Equation tab tooltips, Zotero, Read Aloud, Backstage greetings) aren't wrapped intl!yet, so they show in English in every language: the true share of visible strings is ~93–95% (estimated). - Pending PRs: German (#203), Norwegian Bokmål (#208) and Nynorsk (#210), Hebrew with RTL (#20).
- Proofing: English only (one dictionary, rule-based grammar, English hyphenation patterns).
- Document scripts: shaping via HarfRust (HarfBuzz port) for every script; bidi (UAX #9) and Arabic shaping tested (#207); IME on all desktop platforms (winit fixes pending, #155–#164).
The twelve key languages
Status: full = every user-visible string translated and the script renders and edits correctly;
partial; menus only; none. Hours are to full, Opus 5.5 agent wall-clock, excluding the
shared items below.
| Language | Code | UI strings translated | Dialogs / tooltips / help | Script support | Native review | Status | Hours to full |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | en | source (100%) | ✅ | Latin ✅ | yes | full | 0 |
| Simplified Chinese (Mandarin) | zh-hans | 929 entries; 98% of extracted, ~95% of visible | most; newer panes English | CJK ✅, IME ✅; Windows UI font fixed (#248); no vertical text | no | partial | 3–5 |
| Spanish | es | ~930; 98% / ~95% | most | Latin ✅ | no | partial | 1–2 |
| Hindi | hi | 0 | ❌ | Devanagari shaping via HarfRust, untested; no hyphenation | no | none | 4–6 |
| Arabic | ar | 0 | ❌ | shaping, joining, lam-alef, bidi ✅ (#207); no kashida; no mirrored UI | no | none | 6–8 |
| French | fr | 0 | ❌ | Latin ✅ | no | none | 3–4 |
| Portuguese | pt-br (pt-PT none) | ~930; 98% / ~95% (pt-BR) | most | Latin ✅ | no | partial | 2–4 (pt-BR finish + pt-PT) |
| Indonesian | id | 0 | ❌ | Latin ✅ | no | none | 3–4 |
| Japanese | ja | ~930; 98% / ~95% | most | CJK ✅, IME ✅; no vertical text, ruby or document grid | no | partial | 3–5 |
| German | de | 0 (PR #203 open) | ❌ | Latin ✅ | no | none | 1–2 |
| Korean | ko | 0 | ❌ | Hangul ✅; macOS Korean IME fixes pending (#163, #164) | no | none | 3–5 |
| Vietnamese | vi | 0 | ❌ | Latin with stacked diacritics, untested | no | none | 3–4 |
Other shipped languages: 5 — Traditional Chinese (zh-hant), Ukrainian (uk), Serbian
Cyrillic and Latin (sr, sr-latn, #250), and Estonian (et), all partial.
Estonian uses the existing fonts, follows et-EE system locales, and is available in Options or
through ui.language with {"value":"et"}. Its 1,161 entries cover the existing interface catalog.
Estonian spelling, grammar, dates and document templates are not added by the interface catalog.
Shared work (not in the per-language hours)
| Item | Hours | Notes |
|---|---|---|
Wrap the remaining English literals in tl! and translate them in every catalog |
4–6 | Makes the six partial languages full except script items |
| Mirrored (right-to-left) interface for Arabic and Hebrew | 15–25 | Ribbon, panes, dialogs, rulers |
| Vertical text, ruby, document grid (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) | counted in layout-parity.md | |
| Proofing dictionaries, grammar and hyphenation for the 11 non-English key languages | 25–45 | Open dictionaries only (licence check per dictionary); issues #25, #40, #100 |
| Native-speaker review of every catalog | human | None reviewed yet |
Revision history
| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Estonian interface catalog, locale selection, saved preference and font coverage checks |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Serbian (Cyrillic and Latin) interface merged (#250) |
| 2026-10-10 | major | First version: twelve-language table, catalog coverage measured, Word's 30 UI languages and 120 proofing tools listed |