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41bbaf51bf i18n: add Russian (ru) interface translation (#300)
* 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

* i18n: add Russian (ru) interface translation

- ru.tsv: 1,068 entries covering every interface string, written clean-room
  from the English labels and reviewed by a native speaker. `ru`, `ru-RU`,
  `ru_RU.UTF-8` and other regions resolve to it; File > Options picks it by hand.
- Built-in style names (Normal, Heading 2, TOC 3, Strong…) show in the
  interface language in the Styles gallery, the Styles pane and the Style
  Inspector. Display only: documents, commands and saved files keep the
  English names, and styles the author made keep theirs.
- Rendered previews use the interface language: the Styles gallery samples
  (`АаБбВвГг`) and the Design tab's style-set tiles.
- Catalogs gain a `preview` context for sample text that must fit a small
  tile (`Title` is «Заголовок» as a style but «Пример» in the tiles); it falls
  back to the plain entry, and unknown contexts are still rejected.
- Tests: locale detection and saved preference, full coverage, Cyrillic glyphs
  in the bundled interface fonts, style-name display, catalog contexts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* i18n(ru): translate everything the interface audit finds

Adds 356 Russian entries: the equation gallery (categories, templates and
built-in equations), equation options, themes, watermark presets, paper
sizes, table styles, greetings, outline levels, the strings #313 routes
through the catalog, and the new AutoSave messages. The two rows #305 made
obsolete (📂 Browse…, ➕ New comment) are gone.

The interface audit now also fails when a string it sees translated has no
Russian entry, so Russian stays complete as the interface grows.

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>

* 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

* i18n audit: start every ribbon click from a fresh app; translate the table style preview

The sweep pressed Escape after each click, and in an equation Escape leaves it,
so the Equation tab vanished after its first control and the rest of its menus
(Convert, Justification, …) were never opened. Each control now gets a fresh app
set up the same way. The narrower allowance for short text (only icon lettering
and initials) also catches short words.

It found the sample table in the Table Style dialog (Mon, Tue, North, Total, …),
now translated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WtHKQ7wrZm3uBuaG1Ye8po

* #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>

* i18n audit: click the ribbon's bottom row too

The sweep only clicked controls centred between y = 52 and 125, which took in
the tab row and left out each group's bottom row (Equation › Convert and
Justification among them). The band is now taken from the layout: below the
tab row and above the document area.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WtHKQ7wrZm3uBuaG1Ye8po

* i18n audit: lay the app out wide enough that no ribbon tab overflows

At 1440 pt the Equation tab ran past the window, so its last controls
(Justification among them) sat behind the ribbon's scroll arrow and were never
clicked. The audit window is now 2560 pt wide.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WtHKQ7wrZm3uBuaG1Ye8po

* i18n: add Russian (ru) interface translation

- ru.tsv: 1,068 entries covering every interface string, written clean-room
  from the English labels and reviewed by a native speaker. `ru`, `ru-RU`,
  `ru_RU.UTF-8` and other regions resolve to it; File > Options picks it by hand.
- Built-in style names (Normal, Heading 2, TOC 3, Strong…) show in the
  interface language in the Styles gallery, the Styles pane and the Style
  Inspector. Display only: documents, commands and saved files keep the
  English names, and styles the author made keep theirs.
- Rendered previews use the interface language: the Styles gallery samples
  (`АаБбВвГг`) and the Design tab's style-set tiles.
- Catalogs gain a `preview` context for sample text that must fit a small
  tile (`Title` is «Заголовок» as a style but «Пример» in the tiles); it falls
  back to the plain entry, and unknown contexts are still rejected.
- Tests: locale detection and saved preference, full coverage, Cyrillic glyphs
  in the bundled interface fonts, style-name display, catalog contexts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* i18n(ru): translate everything the interface audit finds

Adds 356 Russian entries: the equation gallery (categories, templates and
built-in equations), equation options, themes, watermark presets, paper
sizes, table styles, greetings, outline levels, the strings #313 routes
through the catalog, and the new AutoSave messages. The two rows #305 made
obsolete (📂 Browse…, ➕ New comment) are gone.

The interface audit now also fails when a string it sees translated has no
Russian entry, so Russian stays complete as the interface grows.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WtHKQ7wrZm3uBuaG1Ye8po

* i18n(ru): native-speaker review corrections

Add Note, Move Past Citation, equation display/inline, accents, stacks,
operators, Column Selection, Reading Highlight, ASAP and Tools, as reviewed;
the Accent gallery button wraps onto two lines.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WtHKQ7wrZm3uBuaG1Ye8po

* i18n(ru): translate what the improved audit and today's main add

The audit now opens every ribbon menu (bottom rows and the Equation tab's last
controls included), which surfaced Equation › Convert and Justification, and
the Table Style dialog's sample table. Also covers password protection, Manage
Styles, the clipboard pane, Shape Effects and Asian typography from main.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WtHKQ7wrZm3uBuaG1Ye8po

* i18n: translate the Table Layout 'Draw Table' ribbon label in every catalog

#308's two-line ribbon label had no catalog rows; #300's Russian audit
(ru covers everything the interface looks up) found it. Rows in all ten
catalogs keep et == es and ru covering zh-hans.

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>

* i18n(ru): restore the review corrections a merge reverted; narrow and hide labels

A merge of older copies of this branch's commits put back the pre-review
wording of 20 entries (Add Note, Tools, the equation accents and operators,
Column Selection, Reading Highlight, ASAP, …) and dropped six that are still in
use (Equation › Convert, Centered as Group, the hyphenation menu's ✓ None).
They're back as reviewed. Also: 1/4 Em Space → «Узкий пробел», and the Draw
tab's Hide Ink button reads «Скрыть».

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WtHKQ7wrZm3uBuaG1Ye8po

* i18n(ru): restore the reviewed wording a merge rewrote

The same merge reworded 24 reviewed entries (password protection, Shape
Effects, Asian typography, the clipboard pane, the table style sample);
they're back as a native speaker reviewed them. Clipboard Pane keeps
«Область буфера обмена», like the other panes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WtHKQ7wrZm3uBuaG1Ye8po

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Co-authored-by: Henno Täht <henno.taht@gmail.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: 2026-10-11 · Change: minor (Turkish interface added; previously 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 .lproj folders 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)

  • 12 interface languages: English plus zh-hans, zh-hant, ja, uk, es, pt-br, Serbian sr/sr-latn (#250), Estonian et, Turkish tr and Russian ru. Catalogs have 1,305–1,450 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 in tl! 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: 7 — Traditional Chinese (zh-hant), Ukrainian (uk), Serbian Cyrillic and Latin (sr, sr-latn, #250), Estonian (et), Turkish (tr) and Russian (ru), 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 1,307 entries cover the existing interface catalog. Estonian spelling, grammar, dates and document templates are not added by the interface catalog. Turkish works the same way (tr-TR and tr-CY system locales, {"value":"tr"}) with all 1,307 entries. Command search folds the Turkish dotted and dotless I (italik finds İtalik, YAZI TİPİ finds Yazı Tipi) while English labels and ASCII command ids keep their usual matching. Turkish proofing is not included; terminology and checks: localization-tr.md.

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 Russian interface (#300; 1,524 entries, built-in style names shown translated; covers everything the interface audit finds)
2026-10-11 minor Turkish interface catalog (1,307 entries), locale selection, saved preference, Turkish casing in command search and font coverage checks; catalog sizes re-counted
2026-10-11 trivial English spelling (#520): our supplement assets/spelling/en-extra.txt adds ~220 common modern words the Moby list lacks ("desktop", "download", "email"…)
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