managing-translations

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Manages internationalization and translations for ComfyUI workflow templates. Syncs translations, adds new languages, checks translation coverage, and manages locale files. Use when asked to: translate, add translations, sync translations, check translations, missing translations, add a language, localize, internationalize, i18n, update translations, translation status, which templates need translation, language support, sync locales, translate description, translate title, add Chinese, add Japanese, add Spanish, multi-language, multilingual. Triggers on: translate, translation, i18n, locale, language, localize, internationalize, sync translations, missing translations.

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Managing Translations

Overview

The repo supports 11 languages. The English master file is templates/index.json. Locale files follow the pattern templates/index.{locale}.json:

Code	Language	File
en	English	`templates/index.json` (master)
zh	Chinese (Simplified)	`templates/index.zh.json`
zh-TW	Chinese (Traditional)	`templates/index.zh-TW.json`
ja	Japanese	`templates/index.ja.json`
ko	Korean	`templates/index.ko.json`
es	Spanish	`templates/index.es.json`
fr	French	`templates/index.fr.json`
ru	Russian	`templates/index.ru.json`
tr	Turkish	`templates/index.tr.json`
ar	Arabic	`templates/index.ar.json`
pt-BR	Portuguese (Brazil)	`templates/index.pt-BR.json`

How Sync Works

Run the sync script to propagate changes from English master to all locale files:

python3 scripts/sync/sync_data.py --templates-dir templates

What sync does

Technical fields (models, date, size, vram, tags, etc.) are auto-copied from English master to all locales.
Translatable fields (title, description) are preserved if already translated — they are NOT overwritten.
New templates get English fallback text until translated.
Tags are auto-translated using mappings defined in scripts/data/i18n.json.

Useful flags

--dry-run — Preview changes without writing files.
--force-sync-language-fields — Overwrite existing translations with English text (destructive — use with caution).

Translation Tracking

scripts/data/i18n.json stores:

Translation status for each template (per language).
Tag translation mappings (English → each language).
Category title translations.

Adding Translations for a Template

Edit scripts/data/i18n.json to add translations under the template's name.

Run the sync script:

python3 scripts/sync/sync_data.py --templates-dir templates

Verify the locale files were updated correctly.

Checking Translation Coverage

Look at scripts/.output/missing_translations_report.json for untranslated entries.
Or manually compare a locale file against index.json to find templates with English-only text.

Site-Level i18n (Separate System)

The template site (site/) has its own i18n system for UI strings — this is separate from the template translation system above:

site/src/i18n/config.ts — Language definitions.
site/src/i18n/ui.ts — UI string translations.
site/src/i18n/utils.ts — URL localization helpers.
Site sync: pnpm run sync (from site/ directory) reads all locale index files.

After Changes, Always Run

python3 scripts/sync/sync_data.py --templates-dir templates
python scripts/validate/validate_templates.py

Rules

English index.json is the master — always edit it first for structural changes.
Never manually edit locale files for technical fields — use the sync script.
Translatable fields (title, description) CAN be manually edited in locale files.
After adding a new template to index.json, always run sync to propagate to all locales.
Tag translations go in scripts/data/i18n.json, not in the locale files directly.