Languages for 0.5.0: Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Urdu, Modern Standard Arabic, Bengali and Indonesian, as drafts

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The next target release, 0.5.0, adds these languages, each shipped as draft until a speaker reviews it (docs/TRANSLATING.md):

Mandarin Chinese
Hindi
Urdu
Modern Standard Arabic
Bengali
Indonesian

Possible additions (not a final decision)

Canadian English
Canadian French
Mexican Spanish

Deliberate holds

American English
Russian

Notes

Urdu and Arabic are right-to-left; the interface already uses logical utilities only, and both themes must still pass axe in these languages.
Related: #705 (settle "Kind" or "Type" before more languages are filled) and #706 (translations are made in Weblate only).

## Decision The next target release, **0.5.0**, adds these languages, each shipped as **draft** until a speaker reviews it (`docs/TRANSLATING.md`): - Mandarin Chinese - Hindi - Urdu - Modern Standard Arabic - Bengali - Indonesian ## Possible additions (not a final decision) - Canadian English - Canadian French - Mexican Spanish ## Deliberate holds - American English - Russian ## Notes - Urdu and Arabic are right-to-left; the interface already uses logical utilities only, and both themes must still pass axe in these languages. - Related: #705 (settle "Kind" or "Type" before more languages are filled) and #706 (translations are made in Weblate only).

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This settles the 0.5.0 part of #269: the six languages above replace the 0.5.0 list in #269's comments of 2026-10-01 (fr-CA and en-CA; az, be, kk, cnr, nn, rm and fo; then Chinese and Arabic). Those are not in the list above, so they are not 0.5.0's languages; which release takes them is not decided here.

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Choose the next language by how many people speak it, not by which continent it is on #269

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Register nine languages for 0.5.0: Chinese, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Indonesian and three regional variants

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Scaffold the catalogues for the nine new languages, empty

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Run the unit-test and dev-image jobs again: both were lost with no step run

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2026-10-25 15:57:22 +00:00

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Every language listed here is scaffolded, so I'm closing this. Each of them has a catalogue with a slot for every string, in the core (src/postulo/locale/), in all seven plugin repos (imap, apprise, dav, paperless, helloworld, templates, francetravail) and in the extensions (postulo-chromium and postulo-thunderbird; postulo-firefox builds from chromium's pinned source):

Mandarin Chinese: zh-Hans and zh-Hant
Hindi hi, Urdu ur, Modern Standard Arabic ar, Bengali bn, Indonesian id
The possible additions: en-CA, fr-CA, es-MX

One thing to reconcile. The release gate's list, SELECTED["0.5"] in src/postulo/core/messages_tool.py (#347, dated 2026-10-23, after this issue), is not this list. It carries en-CA, es-MX, fr-CA, az, be, cnr, fo, kk, nn, rm, zh-Hans, zh-Hant and ar. It has no hi, ur, bn or id, so 0.5.0 will not require those four. As of 2026-10-25, the gate's 13 have no empty strings in Weblate, and their remaining drafts are the strings reviewers marked unsure. If Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Indonesian are meant to be in 0.5.0, they need adding to SELECTED["0.5"].

Every language listed here is scaffolded, so I'm closing this. Each of them has a catalogue with a slot for every string, in the core (`src/postulo/locale/`), in all seven plugin repos (imap, apprise, dav, paperless, helloworld, templates, francetravail) and in the extensions (postulo-chromium and postulo-thunderbird; postulo-firefox builds from chromium's pinned source): - Mandarin Chinese: `zh-Hans` and `zh-Hant` - Hindi `hi`, Urdu `ur`, Modern Standard Arabic `ar`, Bengali `bn`, Indonesian `id` - The possible additions: `en-CA`, `fr-CA`, `es-MX` **One thing to reconcile.** The release gate's list, `SELECTED["0.5"]` in `src/postulo/core/messages_tool.py` (#347, dated 2026-10-23, after this issue), is not this list. It carries en-CA, es-MX, fr-CA, az, be, cnr, fo, kk, nn, rm, zh-Hans, zh-Hant and ar. It has no `hi`, `ur`, `bn` or `id`, so 0.5.0 will not require those four. As of 2026-10-25, the gate's 13 have no empty strings in Weblate, and their remaining drafts are the strings reviewers marked unsure. If Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Indonesian are meant to be in 0.5.0, they need adding to `SELECTED["0.5"]`.

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Select Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Indonesian for 0.5 #1051

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Select Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Indonesian for 0.5 (#269)

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Languages after 0.5: take them up in speaker order (the ordering from #269) #1055

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