Brandon ThomasandClaude Opus 5.5
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Georgian next to Italian in the language table, menus, catalogs list and docs; ka-formats.json lists the format strings other PRs added, in English until translated. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Localization parity
Last reviewed: 2026-10-10 · Last updated: 2026-10-12 · Change: minor (de, es, fr, ja, uk catalogs filled; re-measured; Italian and Georgian interface catalogs added) · Target: Adobe Lightroom Classic 15.5 / Lightroom 9.6
How far each interface language is from full. How to add or maintain a language is in
localization.md; per-language notes are in localization-<code>.md
(zh-hans, zh-hant, ja,
pt-br, es, de,
ru, ka).
The target
Lightroom 9.6 (installed on the owner's Mac) ships 16 interface languages, listed from its bundle's
.lproj folder names: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål,
Dutch, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Swedish, Thai, Simplified Chinese and Traditional
Chinese. It does not ship Hindi, Arabic, Indonesian or Vietnamese, so for those LightCraft would
go beyond the target.
How the numbers are measured
Measured (a Python count over crates/ui-egui/locales/*.json, 2026-10-10):
- The denominator is every message any catalog knows: the union of the plain catalogs' keys (2,074
English source strings: menus, commands, controls, panels, dialogs, tooltips, presets, What's New
lines) plus the 230 messages of the formats catalogs (
*-formats.json: text with runtime values and date patterns), 2,304 messages in all. - A message counts as translated when the catalog has a non-empty value that differs from the English
key. Some identical values are correct (
ISO,OKin German), so the figure slightly understates coverage; on the other hand, strings that never reach a catalog (technical errors raised in lower crates, someformat!text outsidetr_format!) are not in the denominator at all. That is why no language isfulleven at 99%. - The UI has 563 distinct
tr("…")literals and 198tr_format!messages incrates/ui-eguiandapps/; command, control, menu and preset labels reach the catalogs throughdisplay_label.
Script support is checked against the code: language_table! in crates/ui-egui/src/i18n.rs lists
scripts Latn, Cyrl, Hans, Hant, Jpan only. The UI is egui, which has no bidirectional layout
and no complex-script shaping, so Arabic (RTL, joining) and Devanagari (conjuncts, reordering) cannot
render correctly today.
Native-speaker review: no catalog has had a formal review. Several catalogs have edits from community
contributors whose commits only touch that language (ja, zh-hans, zh-hant, fr, de, ru, uk, pt-br);
that is promising but is not recorded as review, so the column says no (community edits).
The twelve key languages
| # | Language | Code | UI strings translated | Dialogs / tooltips / help | Script support | Native review | Status | To full |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | en |
2,304 / 2,304 (100%, source) | all; Help ▸ What's New and the shortcut sheet; no full user manual | Latin (Inter) | n/a | full | 0 h |
| 2 | Simplified Chinese | zh-hans |
1,994 / 2,304 (87%) | menus, panels, dialogs, presets, profiles, dates; lower-layer errors English | Hans via craft-fonts (Noto Sans CJK SC); IME through winit; no vertical text in UI (not in target either) | no (community edits) | partial | 6–10 h |
| 3 | Spanish | es |
2,362 / 2,398 (98%; 2026-10-12) | as zh-hans | Latin | no (community edits) | partial | 2–4 h (native review, lower-layer errors) |
| 4 | Hindi | hi |
0 (0%) | none | Devanagari shaping missing (egui has no complex shaping) | no | none (target: not shipped) | 50–90 h (shaping 25–50 h, shared with Arabic) |
| 5 | Arabic | ar |
0 (0%) | none | RTL layout and Arabic shaping missing | no | none (target: not shipped) | 60–110 h (RTL mirroring 30–50 h + shaping, shared with Hindi) |
| 6 | French | fr |
2,315 / 2,398 (97%; 2026-10-12, the rest are words spelled the same) | as zh-hans | Latin | no (community edits) | partial | 2–4 h (native review, lower-layer errors) |
| 7 | Portuguese (Brazil) | pt-br |
1,966 / 2,304 (85%) | as zh-hans | Latin | no (community edits) | partial | 6–10 h |
| 8 | Indonesian | id |
0 (0%) | none | Latin (Inter covers it) | no | none (target: not shipped) | 10–16 h |
| 9 | Japanese | ja |
2,383 / 2,398 (99%; 2026-10-12) | as zh-hans; vertical export watermarks | Jpan via craft-fonts (BIZ UDPGothic / UDMincho); IME through winit | no (community edits) | partial | 2–4 h (native review, lower-layer errors) |
| 10 | German | de |
2,338 / 2,398 (97%; 2026-10-12, the rest are words spelled the same) | as zh-hans; What's New translated line by line | Latin | no (community edits) | partial | 2–4 h (native review, lower-layer errors) |
| 11 | Korean | ko |
0 (0%) | none | no Korean (Hangul) face: needs a non-Adobe OFL face in craft-fonts (Noto CJK is allowed only for Chinese) | no | none | 14–22 h |
| 12 | Vietnamese | vi |
0 (0%) | none | Latin with stacked diacritics (Inter covers it; check combining marks) | no | none (target: not shipped) | 10–16 h |
Other languages LightCraft ships (4)
| Language | Code | UI strings translated | Script | Native review | Status | To full |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) | zh-hant |
1,993 / 2,304 (87%) | Hant; uses the Simplified Chinese face until craft-fonts has a TC face | no (community edits) | partial | 8–14 h (incl. the font) |
| Russian | ru |
1,704 / 2,304 (74%) | Cyrillic (Inter) | no (community edits) | partial | 8–12 h |
| Ukrainian | uk |
2,383 / 2,398 (99%; 2026-10-12) | Cyrillic (Inter) | no (community edits) | partial (lower-layer errors English) | 2–4 h |
| Italian | it |
2,201 / 2,398 (92%, measured 2026-10-12; the rest is What's New) | Latin (Inter) | no (written with an agent; native-speaker pass pending) | partial (lower-layer errors English) | 3–5 h |
| Georgian | ka |
2,398 / 2,398 (100%: every plain and formats message any catalog has on 2026-10-12, plus the 27 display labels and 397 What's New lines no other catalog translates) | Geor: no craft-fonts face yet (boxes until one is available) | yes (native speaker) | partial (lower-layer errors English) | 2–4 h (+ a Georgian face) |
Target languages LightCraft lacks: Korean, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian Bokmål, Thai (Thai needs shaping and line breaking without spaces). Each Latin-script one is ~10–16 h; Thai ~20–35 h on top of the shaping work.
Shared work before any language is full (counted once, ~20–35 h)
- Route lower-layer error messages (catalog, raw, codecs, engine) through translatable message ids
instead of English
format!strings (~12–20 h). Translating them must not change what the app does: since #1046 the interface decides on an error's kind (lightcraft_engine::ErrorKind, a download's or Apple Photos import'scancelledflag), not its words; new decisions on an error go through a kind too. - A check in
cargo xtask cithat every user-visible literal reaches a catalog (~4–8 h). - A user manual / help pages beyond What's New and the shortcut sheet (Lightroom links to online help; ~4–8 h for a translatable in-app help index).
- Native-speaker review passes (human; cannot be done by agents).
Totals
- Bring the 10 shipped non-English catalogs to
full: ~55–90 h (incl. the shared work). - Add the 5 missing key languages: ~145–255 h, most of it RTL and complex shaping in egui.
- Reach the target's 16 languages: + ~50–85 h (Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Thai).
Revision history
| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Italian interface catalog (it): 2,201 of 2,398 messages, What's New left in English |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Shared work: the interface decides on error kinds, not English error text (#1046) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Georgian (ka) row: every catalog message |
| 2026-10-10 | major | Created: per-language counts measured from the catalogs, the twelve key languages, script support, estimates |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | de, es, fr, ja and uk catalogs filled to every message another catalog knows (agent translations, native review welcome); those rows re-measured against the current 2,398 messages. Other rows keep their 2026-10-10 counts (open PRs for pt-BR, ru, zh) |