figcraft/docs/localization-parity.md

Localization parity

Last reviewed: 2026-10-10 · Last updated: 2026-11-05 · Change: minor (a right-to-left UI language (Arabic) mirrors the window: the icon rail and layers panel on the right, the Design panel on the left, popovers beside it over the canvas, egui's scroll bars, submenus and checkboxes mirrored; FIGCRAFT_EMBED_SCRIPTS embeds other scripts' craft-fonts faces in a web build, so Arabic and Persian documents draw there (#1902); documents: a paragraph's base direction can be forced with Text ▸ Text direction, as Add right-to-left text says (#1830); Bosnian draft catalog, one/few/other plurals; German terminology corrections (M10): gradient stops, OpenType stylistic sets and the Home-screen preference; partial review, catalog remains a draft; Arabic draft catalog, count-neutral plurals and web font gate; Thai draft catalog and Thai UI fonts; a missing translation fails no check: cargo xtask i18n-report lists them; Vietnamese draft catalog; string counts re-measured: 2,352 entries; Russian and Turkish catalogs reviewed by native speakers, Russian one/few/many plurals; Czech and Indonesian drafts; the Japanese draft completed; counts re-measured; Windows UI language from the first preferred language; draft catalogs catch up: every draft translates every string again; Simplified Chinese draft catalog; macOS finds its downloadable CJK system fonts (#406); string counts re-measured: 2,272 entries, the drafts at 95–99%; Swedish command labels and menu wordings; Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Czech and Indonesian listed; a duplicated paragraph removed) · Target: Figma Design (desktop app 126.10.7)

FigCraft's interface has a localization layer with an English catalog, a Russian catalog reviewed by a native speaker, and Spanish (with a Latin American overlay), French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Bosnian and Czech drafts (machine-drafted, waiting for native speakers' review), plus Swedish and Turkish catalogs. This page lists the twelve key languages, then the other languages Figma ships. How to add a language: translating.md.

What Figma ships

Figma's help center lists its web, desktop and mobile apps in English, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Spanish (Spain and Latin America) and Portuguese (Brazil) (checked 2026-10-10). Simplified Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, Indonesian and Vietnamese are not offered; Figma points users to the browser's page translation. The .lproj folders in /Applications/Figma.app (60+) are the Electron/Chromium locale packs, not Figma's own UI languages. Text content in any script is supported by both apps (CJK, Arabic and Devanagari shaping, IME); Figma has no vertical text.

What FigCraft has (measured 2026-10-22, from source)

• Layer: one TOML catalog per language in crates/ui-egui/locales/, baked into the binary by the UI crate's build script (desktop and web; nothing read at run time). Keys are the English text (tr("Fill"), trf for {named} placeholders, trn for counts with one/few/many/other plural forms), so a missing translation shows English, never a raw key. One English text that needs two translations takes a context ("Fill|sizing").
• Strings: 1,747 UI keys in en.toml (42 with plural forms; ~110 are labels from engine and document data, such as tool names, blend modes and Dev Mode properties) plus 574 command labels and 31 menu wordings by command id: 2,352 entries (counted against en.toml and the complete Spanish catalog's command and menu tables). Command ids, the CLI, MCP and the control channel stay English. Accessibility names come from the same strings.
• Language preference: Preferences ▸ Language (System, then each catalog by its own name: English, Bosanski, Čeština, Deutsch, Español, Español (Latinoamérica), Français, Bahasa Indonesia, 日本語, 한국어, Português (Brasil), Русский, Svenska, Türkçe, Tiếng Việt, 简体中文, 繁體中文（台灣）), applied at once without a restart; System takes the first of the OS's preferred languages that has a catalog (on Windows only the first preferred language counts, since that list also holds the languages added for a keyboard; macOS AppleLanguages, LANGUAGE then the locale variables on Linux and BSD; a regional tag falls back to its language, pt-PT or pt to pt-BR, and es-419, es-MX, es-AR, es-CO and the other Latin American and US Spanish tags to es-419; regional ru, tr, cs and id tags (ru-RU, tr-TR, cs-CZ, id-ID) to their catalogs; zh, zh-CN, zh-SG and zh-Hans read zh-Hans, while zh-Hant, zh-TW, zh-HK and zh-MO read zh-Hant; an explicit Hans such as zh-Hans-TW still reads Simplified) or the browser's language on the web. pref.language {language} sets it from the CLI, MCP and the control channel.
• Regional overlays: a regional catalog whose language has a catalog lists only what differs (es-419.toml over es.toml); its UI strings, command labels and menu wordings read the overlay, then the base language, then English.
• Check: cargo test -p figcraft-ui-egui i18n fails on keys the code uses that en.toml lacks, keys no code uses, unknown command ids, placeholders that differ from English and overlay entries that read as in their base language. No language is held to full coverage: a string added later shows English until someone translates it, and cargo xtask i18n-report (part of cargo xtask ci) lists what each language lacks. Every draft translated every string on 2026-10-12; by 2026-10-17 the strings added since left them at 95–99% (table below).
• Not yet localized: messages the engine writes (errors, a few toasts, Dev Mode property values such as "inside"), number formatting (decimal points stay .), and decimal plural rules (trn takes integers: Czech and Bosnian use one/few/other and Russian one/few/many; French and Brazilian Portuguese take the singular for 0 as well; Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Vietnamese have one form; CLDR's "many" for millions in French, Spanish and Portuguese reads as the plural).
• Script support in documents: Unicode bidi with Arabic shaping and mirrored brackets in text layers; a paragraph's base direction forced with Text ▸ Text direction (#1830); right-to-left list markers and indents; right-to-left names in the layers panel, tabs and canvas labels (visual order, joined Arabic); inline IME composition with the candidate window at the caret; system-font fallback for scripts the UI fonts lack: Hebrew and Arabic, Bengali and Thai (with the CJK faces), and since #2014 Ethiopic, Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam, Sinhala, Lao, Myanmar, Khmer, Armenian and Georgian, so a layer name or a String variable's value in them draws in the panels when the system has a face (crates/ui-egui/src/bidi.rs, SCRIPT_SAMPLES and SCRIPT_FAMILIES). Devanagari shapes through harfrust. No vertical text (Figma has none either).
• Script support in the UI: menus widen to their longest label; dropdowns, the two-column labels of the right panel and the home screen's cards keep a long translation on one line with an ellipsis and show it in full on hover (checked in German, the longest). A right-to-left UI language (Arabic; Hebrew, Persian, Urdu and the other right-to-left languages when they get a catalog) mirrors the window: the icon rail and the layers panel on the right, the Design panel on the left with its edge and its popovers (colour picker, style picker, interaction editor) on the canvas side, the panel edges dragged the other way (same widths in the preferences), and egui's own chrome mirrored (scroll bars on the left, submenus opening left, checkbox labels on the left; Style::right_to_left in the egui fork). The rows inside the panels keep their left-to-right order (labels on the left, values on the right) and the toolbar and tab bar keep theirs. Cyrillic, Turkish and Czech letters draw from the UI fonts (no font added; Russian checked in screenshots). CJK translations are shorter than English; the same ellipsis and tooltip cover the few that don't fit (the sizing dropdowns).
• CJK UI fonts: egui's fonts and Inter have no CJK glyphs. Once the UI language, the open file's names or comments, typed text or the language picker needs Japanese kana, Hangul or Han, the desktop app adds one installed face per script to the UI's fallbacks (Windows: Yu Gothic UI, Meiryo, Malgun Gothic, Microsoft YaHei; macOS: Hiragino Sans, Apple SD Gothic Neo, PingFang SC, Hiragino Sans GB, Heiti SC, also from the system's downloaded font assets (/System/Library/AssetsV2/com_apple_MobileAsset_Font*, where current versions keep PingFang); Linux and BSD: Noto Sans CJK, Source Han Sans, Nanum, WenQuanYi; the craft-fonts build's BIZ UDPGothic first), the UI language's script first; Han without kana outside a Japanese or Korean UI reads as Chinese, and a Chinese UI puts its Chinese face (Microsoft YaHei, PingFang SC, Noto Sans CJK SC) ahead of the built-in Japanese one, so Han takes Simplified Chinese shapes, while a Traditional Chinese UI puts an installed Noto Sans CJK TC first, then Microsoft JhengHei, PingFang TC and Heiti TC, so Han takes Traditional shapes; changing the UI language lays the faces out again. Only that face's file is read and egui shares its bytes, so English users load nothing (startup and memory measured unchanged); no CJK font installed means tofu, never a crash. The web build has no system fonts: built with craft-fonts and FIGCRAFT_EMBED_CJK=1 it embeds Noto Sans CJK SC (+16 MB) and offers Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese; without a Noto Sans CJK TC face built in it leaves Traditional Chinese out too; otherwise the language picker and System leave them out. No font file is in this repo. embeds Noto Sans CJK SC (+16 MB) and offers Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese; otherwise the language picker and System leave them out. FIGCRAFT_EMBED_SCRIPTS=Arab,Hebr,Thai,Deva (one tag per script wanted, as the craft-fonts manifest lists them) embeds those scripts' faces as well, so an Arabic or Persian document draws in Noto Sans Arabic (+0.8 MB) instead of missing-glyph boxes (#1902), and with Arab the picker offers the Arabic UI catalog too, as on the desktop. No font file is in this repo.

Languages

Language	Code	UI strings translated	Dialogs / tooltips / help	Script support	Native review	Status	Hours to full
English	en	2,352 / 2,352 (100%, source)	yes	Latin	yes (source)	full	0
Simplified Chinese (Mandarin)	zh-Hans	2,216 / 2,352 (94.2%, draft)	yes	CJK text and IME in documents; UI text in an installed Chinese face, ahead of Japanese ones (web: the FIGCRAFT_EMBED_CJK build)	no	draft	1–2 (after native review)
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)	zh-Hant	2,647 / 2,647 (100%: 1,975 UI strings, 641 command labels, 31 menu wordings; draft, counted 2026-11-03)	yes	CJK text and IME in documents; UI text in an installed Noto Sans CJK TC, then Microsoft JhengHei, PingFang TC or Heiti TC (web: only with a built-in TC face); zh-TW, zh-HK, zh-MO and zh-Hant read it, an explicit Hans stays Simplified	no	draft	1–2 (after native review)
Spanish	es, es-419	2,352 / 2,352 (100%, draft); es-419 overlays 104 Latin American wordings (draft)	yes	Latin	no	draft	0–1 (after native review)
Hindi	hi	0 (0%)	no	Devanagari shaping works in documents; UI font fallback to check	no	none	4–7
Arabic	ar	1,857 / 1,857 UI strings, 620 command labels, 31 menu wordings (draft, counted 2026-10-28)	catalog complete; native review pending	Existing bidi/shaping and Arabic system fallback; web: only a build with FIGCRAFT_EMBED_SCRIPTS=Arab embeds Noto Sans Arabic (the font budget leaves it out otherwise, #1902); documents draw in it and the picker offers the Arabic UI then; panels do not mirror	no	draft	review + panel mirroring (not re-estimated)
Hindi	hi	0 (0%)	no	Devanagari shaping works in documents; the desktop UI takes an installed Devanagari face (Nirmala UI, Kohinoor Devanagari, Noto Sans Devanagari, Lohit) for names and values (#2014); no UI catalog	no	none	4–7
Arabic	ar	1,857 / 1,857 UI strings, 620 command labels, 31 menu wordings (draft, counted 2026-10-28)	catalog complete; native review pending	Existing bidi/shaping and Arabic system fallback; web not offered (font budget excludes Arabic); panels do not mirror	no	draft	review + panel mirroring (not re-estimated)
Arabic	ar	1,857 / 1,857 UI strings, 620 command labels, 31 menu wordings (draft, counted 2026-10-28)	catalog complete; native review pending	Existing bidi/shaping and Arabic system fallback; web not offered (font budget excludes Arabic); the window mirrors (panels swap sides), rows inside the panels do not	no	draft	review + mirrored panel rows (not re-estimated)
French	fr	2,328 / 2,352 (99.0%, draft)	yes	Latin	no	draft	1–2 (after native review)
Portuguese	pt-BR	2,331 / 2,352 (99.1%, draft)	yes	Latin	no	draft	1–2 (after native review)
Indonesian	id	2,292 / 2,352 (97.4%, draft)	yes	Latin	no	draft	1–2 (after native review)
Japanese	ja	2,304 / 2,352 (98.0%, draft)	yes	CJK text and IME in documents; UI text in an installed Japanese face (web: the FIGCRAFT_EMBED_CJK build)	no	draft	1–2 (after native review)
German	de	2,226 / 2,352 (94.6%, draft)	yes	Latin; long words elide in narrow fields	no	draft	1–2 (after native review)
Korean	ko	2,216 / 2,352 (94.2%, draft)	yes	Hangul text and IME in documents; UI text in an installed Korean face (web: the FIGCRAFT_EMBED_CJK build)	no	draft	1–2 (after native review)
Vietnamese	vi	2,352 / 2,352 (100%, draft)	yes	Latin with stacked diacritics	no	draft	1–2 (after native review)
Thai	th	1,791 / 1,791 UI strings, 589 of 598 command labels, 31 menu wordings (draft)	yes	Thai text in documents; UI text (and layer and page names in Thai, whatever the UI language) in an installed Thai face, desktop only; the web build leaves Thai out	no	draft	1–2 (after native review)

Other languages (measured 2026-10-22): Russian (ru) 2,352 / 2,352 (100%), reviewed and approved by VanTan, one/few/many integer plurals; Swedish (sv) 2,314 / 2,352 (98.4%), its command labels and menu wordings added 2026-10-17 (#599), native review welcome; Turkish (tr) 2,291 / 2,352 (97.4%), whose header says it was machine-drafted and reviewed by a native speaker; Czech (cs) 2,292 / 2,352 (97.4%), a draft with one/few/other plurals; Bosnian (bs, Bosanski, added 2026-10-30) 2,566 / 2,566 (100%: 1,906 UI strings, 629 command labels, 31 menu wordings), a machine draft awaiting native review, with one/few/other plurals (21 takes one). Figma ships none beyond the eight above.

The layer is done. Per-language hours above are agent hours for a catalog of ~1,800 entries (a machine draft, then a pass over the panels for overflow), plus each language's plural rule where it isn't one/other; every language also needs a native speaker's review (human). Left before full parity besides the languages: localizing engine messages and number formatting (4–6 h); right-to-left mirroring of the rows inside the panels is in Arabic's hours (the window itself mirrors since 2026-10-31). Total: 29–51 h (kept on 2026-10-17: Indonesian's draft takes 2–3 h off, about what bringing the drafts back from 95% to every string adds).

Priority: native reviews of the drafts and the es-419 overlay (every one of Figma's languages and variants has one, plus Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Indonesian, Vietnamese and Czech, which Figma doesn't ship), then Hindi and Arabic.

Revision history

Date	Change	Summary
2026-11-03	minor	Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) (zh-Hant, 繁體中文（台灣）) draft catalog: every UI string (1,975), command label (641) and menu wording (31), translated clean-room from the English source and marked as a draft awaiting native review. zh-TW, zh-HK, zh-MO and zh-Hant read it; an explicit Hans still reads Simplified Chinese. The desktop UI prefers an installed Noto Sans CJK TC, then Microsoft JhengHei, PingFang TC and Heiti TC; no font is bundled. No plural forms. Localization grade and estimates unchanged
2026-11-03	patch	M10, #1902: the web build drew Persian and Arabic text as missing-glyph boxes. The browser has no system fonts, and crates/text/build.rs keeps the web catalog to Inter, Noto Sans Georgian, the wordmark and (with FIGCRAFT_EMBED_CJK) Noto Sans CJK, so craft-fonts' Noto Sans Arabic never reached it. FIGCRAFT_EMBED_SCRIPTS=Arab,Hebr,… (script tags as the manifest's scripts column lists them) now embeds those scripts' faces in a web build; the default build and its size are unchanged, and with Arab embedded the picker offers the Arabic UI as well (cjk::can_show, as on the desktop). Noto Sans Hebrew, Devanagari and Georgian join Arabic and Thai among the document fallbacks, so an embedded face draws its script in an Inter document. Tests: web_embeds_other_scripts_faces_only_when_asked in the build script, every_embeddable_script_face_is_a_document_fallback.
2026-11-05	patch	#2014: the panels drew a String variable's Amharic value as boxes: the UI took a system face for Hebrew and Arabic only. bidi::script_fallbacks now samples one letter of each of 16 scripts (Ethiopic, Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam, Sinhala, Lao, Myanmar, Khmer, Armenian and Georgian as well as Hebrew and Arabic; Bengali and Thai keep crate::cjk's faces) against the system's families for each (Windows, macOS, the common Linux fonts), the first installed one that draws the letter taken once. Desktop only: the web build has no system fonts. Test: bidi::tests::other_scripts_take_an_installed_system_face (skips scripts the machine has no face for).
2026-11-05	minor	Documents: a paragraph's base direction can be forced left to right or right to left (Text ▸ Text direction, text.direction, node.set textDirection, the Type settings control, the .fig lines' sourceDirectionality), as Add right-to-left text says (#1830); detection stays the default. Four new UI strings (English only; other catalogs fall back).
2026-10-31	minor	A right-to-left UI language mirrors the window: i18n::right_to_left (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Sindhi, Sorani, Uyghur, Dhivehi, Yiddish); the icon rail and layers panel on the right, the Design panel on the left, its edge line and popovers on the canvas side, panel edges and narrow-window buttons mirrored, egui's Style::right_to_left on. Rows inside the panels, the toolbar and the tab bar keep their order. Evidence: crates/ui-egui/src/mirror_tests.rs, popover_tests.rs, i18n/tests.rs. No grade change
2026-10-30	minor	Bosnian (bs, Bosanski) draft catalog: every UI string (1,906), command label (629) and menu wording (31), machine-drafted in Latin script with ijekavian forms and marked as a draft awaiting native review. Bosnian plurals: one for 1, 21, 31… (not 11), few for 2–4, 22–24… (not 12–14), other for the rest. Grade and hours unchanged (Bosnian is not one of the twelve key languages)
2026-10-29	minor	German terminology corrections (M10): gradient stops, OpenType stylistic sets and the Home-screen preference; partial review, catalog remains a draft. Nine existing translations corrected; keys, placeholders, coverage, grade and estimates unchanged
2026-10-28	minor	Arabic draft: 1,857 UI entries, 620 command labels and 31 menu wordings, with count-neutral plurals. AI-assisted, native review pending. Desktop uses the existing Arabic fallback and bidi; web requires an embedded Arabic face. No panel mirroring or parity-grade increase claimed
2026-10-24	minor	Thai (th) draft catalog: th.toml translates every UI string (1,791), 589 command labels and the 31 menu wordings, machine-drafted and marked as a draft awaiting native review (9 newer command labels read English, as in the other drafts). The desktop UI now adds an installed Thai face (Noto Sans Thai, Leelawadee UI, Tahoma, Sukhumvit Set, Thonburi, Ayuthaya, Sarabun, Loma, Garuda or Waree) when a layer or page name or the UI language needs it, so Thai names no longer show as tofu squares. No plural forms for Thai. Grade and hours unchanged
2026-10-24	minor	Vietnamese (vi) draft catalog (#1026), assessed as a machine draft awaiting review like the others; string counts re-measured: 2,352 entries.
2026-10-23	minor	A missing translation fails no check: Spanish is no longer held to full coverage, and the tests of one language's wording, names and plural forms are gone (the plural rules and language-tag tests stay). cargo xtask i18n-report, run by cargo xtask ci, lists each language's missing UI strings, command labels and menu wordings. Grade unchanged
2026-10-15	minor	Community catalogs (#257, #263, #469, #477, #288): Russian (ru, Русский, reviewed and approved by VanTan) and Turkish (tr, Türkçe, reviewed by a native speaker), Czech (cs, Čeština) and Indonesian (id, Bahasa Indonesia) drafts, and the Japanese draft caught up; Preferences ▸ Language lists them and System maps their regional tags. Catalogs may give few and many plural forms; Russian picks one, few or many by its integer rule (11–14 take many), the catalog supplying the text choosing the rule. Only Spanish is held to completeness. Counts re-measured: 1,587 UI keys (38 plural), 559 command labels and 31 menu wordings, 2,177 entries; Spanish 100%, Japanese 2,176, Czech and Indonesian 2,166, Russian and Turkish 2,165, the five older drafts 2,088–2,089 (95%). Localization 39% and 29–51 h unchanged at this rounding
2026-10-17	minor	Chinese showed as boxes on macOS (#406): the font scan also walks the system's downloaded font assets (/System/Library/AssetsV2 and the older /System/Library/Assets, only their com_apple_MobileAsset_Font* folders), where current versions keep PingFang SC, and Hiragino Sans GB and Heiti SC join the Chinese UI faces and the text fallbacks. Tested with a folder laid out the same way; not yet run on a Mac
2026-10-17	minor	String counts re-measured from the catalogs: 1,680 UI keys, 561 command labels and 31 menu wordings (2,272 entries); Spanish complete, the other drafts at 95.3–99.2% (strings added since 2026-10-12 show English), es-419 101 entries. Indonesian has a draft (98.8%; it was listed as none); Russian (98.8%, reviewed), Swedish (99.6%, command labels and menu wordings from #599), Turkish (98.7%) and Czech (98.8%) listed with counts; the language picker's list updated; a paragraph repeated by a merge removed. Grade and hours unchanged (Indonesian's draft is offset by the drafts' new gaps)
2026-10-14	minor	Windows UI language (#291): the interface language comes from Windows' first preferred language alone; that list is also the input-language list (a German keyboard on a Polish system adds Deutsch), and taking the first entry with a catalog turned the interface German there. A first preferred language without a catalog reads English; macOS AppleLanguages and gettext's LANGUAGE still take the first language with a catalog
2026-10-12	minor	Drafts catch up again, and the counts with them: French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese translate the 71 UI strings and 5 command labels they lacked since sharing with a join code and open hosting (the Share popover, join codes, owner tokens, reports, the .fig export notes), and with Spanish the 26 strings and 3 command labels of your online files (Home ▸ Online, its menu and dialogs, the marks on tabs); machine-drafted in each file's conventions, still drafts. The Latin American overlay adds computadora and agrega where the new Spanish says ordenador and añade (98 entries). 2,076 entries per catalog (1,503 UI strings, 544 command labels, 29 menu wordings)
2026-10-12	minor	Draft catalogs catch up: French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese and Korean translate the 66 UI strings and 17 command labels added since they were drafted (cursor chat and spotlight, the plugin directory, Rename layers, presentation and snapping keys, list levels, the rotation origin, placing with Enter…), Simplified Chinese the 46 and 12 it lacked; machine-drafted from the English in each file's conventions, still drafts (not in COMPLETE). The Latin American overlay adds Control for a gamepad controller and presiona in the plugin directory hint (90 entries, with Enter for the keycap). String counts re-measured: 1,417 UI keys, 536 command labels and 29 menu wordings (1,982 entries), every draft at 100%. Localization grade unchanged
2026-10-12	minor	Simplified Chinese draft catalog (gap 5): zh-Hans.toml translates every UI string (1,371 keys; plurals give only other, and plural_one never picks "one"), command label (524) and menu wording (29), machine-drafted in a concise UI style with full-width punctuation and marked as a draft awaiting native review; Preferences ▸ Language lists 简体中文, System maps zh, zh-CN, zh-SG and zh-Hans to it, and Traditional Chinese (zh-Hant, zh-TW, zh-HK, zh-MO) has no catalog and stays English (or the next OS language), never Simplified. A Chinese UI draws Han in a Chinese face first (Microsoft YaHei, PingFang SC, Noto Sans CJK SC), ahead of the craft-fonts build's Japanese BIZ UDPGothic, and changing the UI language lays the CJK faces out again (switching from Japanese to Chinese no longer keeps the Japanese face in front). String counts re-measured: 1,371 UI keys, 524 command labels and 29 menu wordings (1,924 entries); the French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese and Korean drafts have 1,899 of them (the 25 newer strings read English). Localization 36% → 39%, 31–54 h → 29–51 h
2026-10-12	minor	Latin American Spanish overlay (gap 5): es-419.toml lists only the 87 entries (61 UI strings, 26 command labels) whose wording differs in Latin American usage (agregar for añadir, presionar for pulsar, configuración for settings, Enter for the Intro key, control for a gamepad, resorte for a spring) and reads es.toml, then English, for the rest (a regional catalog overlays its language's); same tú register as Spanish; a draft awaiting native review. Preferences ▸ Language lists Español (Latinoamérica); System maps es-419, es-MX, es-AR, es-CO and the other Latin American and US Spanish tags to it, es-ES and es to Spanish. A regional catalog's lookups (UI strings, command labels, menu wordings) go overlay → base language → English; the check fails on an overlay entry that reads as in its base. Localization 35% → 36%, 32–55 h → 31–54 h
2026-10-12	minor	Japanese and Korean draft catalogs and CJK UI fonts (gap 5): ja.toml and ko.toml translate every UI string (1,351 keys; plurals give only other, and plural_one never picks "one" in either), command label (519) and menu wording (29), machine-drafted and marked as drafts awaiting native review; Preferences ▸ Language lists 日本語 and 한국어, System picks ja* and ko*. CJK UI text renders: once the UI language, the open file's names or comments, typed text or the language picker needs Japanese kana, Hangul or Han, the desktop app appends one installed face per script to egui's fallbacks (Windows Yu Gothic UI / Meiryo / Malgun Gothic / Microsoft YaHei, macOS Hiragino Sans / Apple SD Gothic Neo / PingFang SC, Linux Noto Sans CJK; the craft-fonts build's BIZ UDPGothic first), reading only that face's file and sharing its bytes with egui (English users load none: startup and memory unchanged); the web shows Japanese and Korean only when built with craft-fonts' Noto Sans CJK (FIGCRAFT_EMBED_CJK), else it keeps them out of the picker and System. Localization 30% → 35%, 40–65 h → 32–55 h
2026-10-12	minor	French, German and Brazilian Portuguese draft catalogs (gap 5): fr.toml, de.toml and pt-BR.toml translate every UI string (1,351 keys, 36 with plural forms), command label (519) and menu wording (29), machine-drafted and marked as drafts awaiting native review; they fall back to English per key, so new strings need only English and Spanish. French and Brazilian Portuguese count 0 as singular (plural_one); System picks the first OS language with a catalog (Windows' and macOS's preferred-language lists, LANGUAGE then the locale on Linux and BSD; pt-PT and pt read pt-BR); Preferences ▸ Language lists Français, Deutsch and Português (Brasil). Dropdowns, two-column labels and the home cards keep long translations on one line with an ellipsis and show them in full on hover. Localization 20% → 30%, 45–75 h → 40–65 h
2026-10-11	major	Localization layer landed (gap 5): catalogs per language baked in at build time, English text as keys and fallback, {named} placeholders and one/other plurals, command labels by command id, Preferences ▸ Language (System follows the OS or the browser) applied live, pref.language, and a catalog check; English catalog (1,280 UI keys) and a complete Spanish draft (1,810 entries with command labels) waiting for native review; localization 10% → 20%, 60–100 h → 45–75 h
2026-10-10	major	Created: English only, string counts measured from source, Figma's eight UI languages from its help center