Last reviewed: 2026-10-10 · Last updated: 2026-10-30 · Change: minor (Bosnian added; previously minor: the command line enables the OS IME and handles composition/commit, so single-line TEXT edits accept CJK input; previously: Brazilian Portuguese row updated and terminology reviewed; previously: Swedish catalog completed with the 95 strings added since; previously: Swedish catalog added: complete catalog, menu headings, native-speaker terminology review; previously: complete current Korean catalog with Hangul font coverage) · Target: Autodesk AutoCAD 2027 for Mac (26.0)
How far CADCraft’s interface and drawing text are from AutoCAD’s languages. Summarised in ROADMAP.md; work items in gaps.md.
Measured from the installed AutoCAD 2027 for Mac bundle by listing only (folder names, nothing
read): Contents/Resources has Base.lproj (English), de, es, fr, it, ja, ko and
zh_CN localizations, and Resources/Support has matching @de@ … @zh_CN@ folders. That is
8 interface languages on the Mac. AutoCAD for Windows also has language packs for Traditional
Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Czech and Hungarian (Autodesk’s published
language-pack list, not measured here). AutoCAD’s spell checker ships about 20 dictionaries
(*.dct names in Resources/Support).
Drawing text in AutoCAD: TrueType and SHX big fonts (CJK), Unicode \U+ escapes, complex-script
shaping and right-to-left text through TrueType, vertical SHX text styles.
crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/, landed with #36): a TSV per
language (context, English source, translation, @plural rows), Edit → Interface Language with
Auto (system language), live switching, a saved choice, and tests for coverage, placeholders
and plurals (localization.md). The Ukrainian and German catalogs have
989 rows each,
covering menus, command labels, tool groups and tooltips, the Start page, tabs, status
controls, object snaps, drafting prompts, property labels and dialogs. Engine diagnostics,
CLI/MCP responses and command history stay English, and uncatalogued text falls back to
English. For scale: about 1,160 unique capitalised string literals exist in crates/engine
and crates/ui-egui (grep, 2026-10-10)..ttc through skrifa with per-character font fallback
and FONTALT, so CJK characters render (#173). Pre-2007 DXF text is written in the file’s code page,
with \U+ escapes for characters outside it, so non-ASCII survives in R2000 files (#169). Lines with right-to-left text get the Unicode
Bidirectional Algorithm and OpenType shaping with harfrust (Arabic, Persian and Urdu joining,
lam-alef, ZWNJ, marks; Hebrew), in TEXT and MTEXT including wrapping (#287). Left-to-right lines
are still placed one glyph per code point: no shaping for Devanagari and other Indic
scripts, and no vertical text. SHX fonts are not read; our stroke font stands in.Every UI percentage is measured from the catalogs (0 rows for every language without a catalog file). Hours are estimated: about 3–5 h per language for an Opus 5.5 agent to translate the ~990 catalog rows and fix layout, plus native review by a human; extending the catalog to the remaining English-only strings (engine diagnostics, uncatalogued text) is about 4–6 h, counted once in the first row.
| Language | Code | UI strings translated | Dialogs / tooltips / help | Script support | Native review | Status | Estimate to full |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | en | source (100%) | 100% (help is a command reference, not AutoCAD-sized help) | Latin: yes | n/a | full | — |
| Simplified Chinese | zh-Hans | 0 (0%) | 0% | CJK glyphs render via fallback; IME fixes pending (#110–#119); no vertical text | no | none | 8–12 h (includes extending the catalog, 4–6 h) |
| Spanish | es | 0 (0%) | 0% | Latin: yes | no | none | 3–5 h |
| Hindi | hi | 0 (0%) | 0% | Devanagari: no shaping | no | none | 3–5 h + 15–25 h shaping (shared with Arabic) |
| Arabic | ar | 0 (0%) | 0% | Drawing text shaped and laid out right to left (#287); the UI is not mirrored | no | none | 3–5 h + 15–25 h RTL UI |
| French | fr | ≈ 900 catalog rows (gaps reported, English fallback) | partial | Latin: yes | contributed by @pechnikov2026-star (#624); no native review yet | partial | 2–4 h |
| Russian | ru | ≈ 900 catalog rows (gaps reported, English fallback) | partial | Cyrillic: yes (bundled egui fonts) | contributed by @pechnikov2026-star (#624); no native review yet | partial | 2–4 h |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | pt-BR | 1,231 catalog rows; reference catalog and marked UI literals covered (no gaps reported) | dialogs and tooltips yes; command reference searchable in Portuguese | Latin: yes (bundled egui fonts; accented letters tested) | catalog by @WladmirJunior, completed with AI assistance by @RicSchonfelder; terminology reviewed by a native speaker (@ffishman) | complete current catalog; English-only interface gaps remain | line-by-line proofreading + shared English-only UI work |
| Indonesian | id | 0 (0%) | 0% | Latin: yes | no | none | 3–5 h |
| Japanese | ja | 0 (0%) | 0% | CJK glyphs render; IME pending; no vertical text | no | none | 4–6 h |
| German | de | 989 catalog rows (≈ 100% of the catalog; ≈ 80% of all UI strings, estimated: engine diagnostics and uncatalogued text stay English) | dialogs and tooltips yes; command reference searchable in German | Latin: yes (bundled egui fonts cover ä ö ü Ä Ö Ü ß; long strings will need layout checks) | no native review | partial | 1–2 h |
| Greek | el | 1,330 catalog rows (all collected existing source keys) | Menus, dialogs, tooltips, drawing prompts, command labels and contextual headings; English fallback for uncatalogued UI | Greek script; bundled egui glyph check added | Original AI-assisted translation by @Camthalion77, independent native review pending | complete current catalog; uncatalogued UI remains English | native proofreading and platform layout review |
| Korean | ko | 1,235 rows (1,229 ordinary, 4 menu, 2 count); full existing catalog union and marked UI coverage | dialogs, tooltips, Options and translated command-reference labels | UI requires catalog-covering installed or optional craft-fonts Hang/Kore face; English fallback without one; IME fixes still pending | original AI-assisted translation; independent native proofreading pending | complete current catalog; English-only interface gaps remain | native review + platform layout/IME validation |
| Vietnamese | vi | 0 (0%) | 0% | Latin with stacked diacritics: renders per code point, untested | no | none | 3–5 h |
| Ukrainian | uk | 989 catalog rows (≈ 100% of the catalog; ≈ 80% of all UI strings, estimated: engine diagnostics and uncatalogued text stay English) | dialogs and tooltips yes; command reference searchable in Ukrainian | Cyrillic: yes (bundled egui fonts) | translated by a contributor; no second review | partial | 2–4 h |
| Czech | cs | 1,202 catalog rows; reference catalog and marked UI literals covered | dialogs and tooltips yes; contextual menu headings; command reference searchable in Czech | Latin: yes (bundled egui proportional and monospace fonts; Czech letters and quotes tested) | AI-assisted by @Losminek; independent review pass; not yet proofread by a native speaker | complete current catalog; English-only interface gaps remain | native review + shared English-only UI work |
| Swedish | sv | 1,330 catalog rows; reference catalog, marked UI literals and menu headings covered (no gaps reported) | dialogs and tooltips yes; contextual menu headings; command reference searchable in Swedish | Latin: yes (bundled egui proportional and monospace fonts; å ä ö é and Swedish quotes tested) | AI-assisted (Claude Code) by @holmbom; terminology and the running app reviewed by a native speaker | complete current catalog; English-only interface gaps remain | line-by-line proofreading + shared English-only UI work |
| Italian | it | 1,227 catalog rows; reference catalog and marked UI literals covered | dialogs and tooltips yes; contextual menu headings (Visualizza / Vista, Edita / Modifica); command reference searchable in Italian | Latin: yes (bundled egui fonts; accented letters tested) | AI-assisted by Emanuele Bottelli (Claude), written from the English strings with Italian desktop-CAD vocabulary; no native proofreading pass yet | complete current catalog; English-only interface gaps remain | native review + shared English-only UI work |
| Hungarian | hu | 1,326 catalog rows; reference catalog, marked UI literals and menu headings covered (no gaps reported) | dialogs and tooltips yes; contextual menu headings; command reference searchable in Hungarian | Latin: yes (bundled egui proportional and monospace fonts; ő ű Ő Ű and the other accented letters tested) | translated by @Skaywalker from the English strings; independent native proofreading pending | complete current catalog; English-only interface gaps remain | native proofreading + shared English-only UI work |
| Turkish | tr | 1,330 catalog rows; reference catalog, marked UI literals and menu headings covered (no gaps reported) | dialogs and tooltips yes; contextual menu headings (Ölçülendirme / Ölçü); command reference searchable in Turkish | Latin: yes (bundled egui proportional and monospace fonts; Ç Ğ İ Ö Ş Ü ç ğ ı ö ş ü tested) | AI-assisted by @ogzhnklvz, written from the English strings with Turkish desktop-CAD vocabulary; the running app reviewed by a native speaker | complete current catalog; English-only interface gaps remain | line-by-line proofreading + shared English-only UI work |
| Bosnian | bs | 1,442 catalog rows; reference catalog and marked UI literals covered | dialogs and tooltips yes | Latin: yes (bundled egui fonts) | AI-assisted; independent native proofreading pending | complete current catalog; English-only interface gaps remain | native proofreading + shared English-only UI work |
Other languages shipped: Ukrainian, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Czech, Russian, French, Italian, Korean, Swedish, Hungarian, Turkish and Bosnian. Czech, Swedish, Hungarian, Brazilian Portuguese and Bosnian (1,442 rows, AI-assisted, not yet native-reviewed) cover the reference catalog and every marked UI literal; engine diagnostics and uncatalogued text remain English. AutoCAD for Mac ships 7 non-English languages (zh-Hans, es, fr, ja, de, ko, it); of those, CADCraft now ships German and Korean, and additionally Ukrainian, which AutoCAD for Mac doesn’t ship.
Total to put all twelve at full: about 55–95 Opus 5.5 hours (catalog extension 4–6 h,
ten translations 30–50 h, complex-script shaping and RTL 30–45 h), plus native-speaker review for
each language, which needs humans. Translations parallelise fully once the catalog exists.
| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-30 | minor | Bosnian (bs, Latin, Ijekavian) added: 1,442 rows, one/few/other plurals, bs-* locales; AI-assisted, native proofreading pending |
| 2026-10-22 | minor | Command line IME: enabled while a prompt collects text, composition shown but not saved, commit inserted once; single-line TEXT edits accept CJK input (#1761) |
| 2026-10-19 | minor | Brazilian Portuguese: row brought up to date (it still read 0%); native-speaker terminology pass on 69 rows (Bind as Integrar, prompt keywords and SPDX kept in English, Thaw Layer, Snap type, Revolve fixed; snap, viewport, grip, offset, layer on/off and multiline wording made consistent with Brazilian usage) |
| 2026-10-15 | minor | Greek (el) catalog: 1,330 rows, context/plural/locale/font tests; review pending |
| 2026-10-14 | minor | Swedish completed: 95 rows for strings added since (Hatch and Gradient dialog, Block Editor, REFEDIT, multileader editing, Options selection settings, MTEXT editor, recent files); 1,330 rows, every key of the Ukrainian reference catalog |
| 2026-10-18 | minor | Turkish added: 1,330 rows (the existing catalog union), single count form, four menu headings, prompt keywords kept in English; locale/preferences/menu/live-switch/dialog/font tests; no gaps in the marked UI literals; AI-assisted, the running app reviewed by a native speaker |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | Hungarian added: 1,326 rows, a single count form, menu headings, locale/preferences/menu/font/render tests; no gaps in the marked UI literals; native proofreading pending |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | Swedish added: 1,235 rows, one/other plurals, menu headings, locale/preferences/menu/font/render tests; no gaps in the marked UI literals; terminology and the running app reviewed by a native speaker |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | Korean added: full 1,235-row existing catalog union, single count form, locale/persistence/live-switch tests, and validated Hangul UI fonts; native review and platform verification pending |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Italian added: 1,227 rows, one/other plurals, two menu headings, locale/preference/plural/font tests; AI-assisted, native proofreading pending |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Brazilian Portuguese catalog completed by @RicSchonfelder: 238 rows added (1,231 total), now covering the reference catalog and every marked UI literal, gaps 0; bundled-font glyph test for the catalog’s accented letters |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Czech added: 1,202 rows, one/few/other plurals, locale/preferences/menu/font/render tests; independent review pass; native proofreading pending |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | German catalog landed: de preference and catalog, per-language plural rules; non-English languages 1 → 2; total hours 60–100 → 55–95 |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Right-to-left drawing text: bidi and Arabic-script shaping in TEXT and MTEXT (#287) |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Ukrainian catalog landed on main (#36): catalog infrastructure exists, Ukrainian partial; total hours 70–110 → 60–100 |
| 2026-10-10 | major | First localization measurement against AutoCAD 2027 for Mac’s bundle localizations |