Languages

The app speaks English, German (Deutsch), French (Français), Spanish (Español), Italian (Italiano) and Swedish (Svenska).

Choosing the language

At the start the app follows your computer’s language, and English when it isn’t one of these. To choose another, use View > Language or This computer > Preferences in the Browser. The change is immediate, and the app keeps it for next time.

Problems, the report, the checker’s findings, error messages and the setup sheet follow the language too. What stays in English, whatever the language:

• The G-code and its comments.
• The command line, --json output and the AI assistant tools (a setup sheet written by chipload sheet --lang or chipload run --sheet-lang excepted).
• The issues found when a DXF was first read, which the project keeps as they were written, and what other programs say (the file system, a picture that can’t be read).
• This guide.

Names you give things (parts, operations, tools, machines, layers) are yours and are never translated. Numbers keep the decimal point in every language. In German, French, Spanish, Italian and Swedish a field also takes a decimal comma (6,5); in English a comma isn’t read, since 1,000 would mean a thousand.

Helping with a translation

German, French, Spanish and Italian are marked (review wanted) in the language menu: they haven’t yet been read by someone who speaks the language and runs a CNC machine. A wrong word in a CAM program can mislead (climb or conventional, inside or outside), so your corrections matter.

The texts are plain files in the source, one folder per language: crates/chipload-i18n/locales/<language>/*.ftl. The machining terms used all through them are in crates/chipload-i18n/GLOSSARY.md. Open an issue with the wrong text and a better one, or send a pull request that changes the file.