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Adds full Arabic (العربية) locale support across UI strings, content translations, and RTL layout.

Infrastructure

  • Registered ar=العربية in locales.properties
  • Added dir="{{htmlDir}}" to <html> in both templates; generator resolves to "rtl" for ar, "ltr" for all others
  • Fixed generate.py (used in benchmarks) to pass locale and htmlDir tokens, preventing unresolved {{htmlDir}} in English output

Translations

  • translations/strings/ar.yaml — 64 UI keys in Modern Standard Arabic; site.title falls back to "java.evolved" (brand name)
  • translations/content/ar/ — 112 content YAML files across all 11 categories (collections, concurrency, datetime, enterprise, errors, io, language, security, streams, strings, tooling)
  • Java technical terms, annotations, JDK versions, and API names kept in English; all other copy translated to فصحى
Original prompt

Add content translation for Arabic

[Chronological Review: This is a short, casual conversation with no code or tool usage. The user asked about translating content to Hindi for Indian developers, then asked about fun/fancy languages to explore for translation.] [Intent Mapping: 1) User asked whether translating to "Hindu" (Hindi) is necessary for Indian developers. 2) User asked about interesting/fancy languages to explore for fun.] [Technical Inventory: No technical tools, frameworks, or code were involved. The conversation is about language/localization strategy, likely for a developer-facing website or tool.] [Code Archaeology: No files, functions, or code changes were discussed.] [Progress Assessment: This is a casual brainstorming conversation with no actionable tasks started yet.] [Context Validation: The conversation is lightweight — no critical technical context to preserve beyond the discussion topic.] [Recent Commands Analysis: No agent commands or tools were executed at any point in this conversation. No tool calls were made. The summarization was manually requested by the user, not triggered by token budget.] 1. Conversation Overview: - Primary Objectives: Casual discussion about whether to translate a site/product to Hindi for Indian developers, and exploring fun/interesting languages for potential translation. - Session Context: Brief, informal exchange — no project setup, no code, no tool usage. Appears to relate to an internationalization/localization decision for a developer-facing product (possibly Java-related based on a mention in the language suggestions). - User Intent Evolution: Started with a practical question ("do I really need to translate to Hindu?") → shifted to creative exploration ("any fancy language we could explore for fun?")

  1. Technical Foundation:

    • No technical stack, frameworks, or tools were discussed or used.
    • Topic is internationalization/localization strategy for an unspecified developer-facing product.

  2. Codebase Status:

    • No files were created, modified, or discussed.

  3. Problem Resolution:

    • Corrected "Hindu" (religion) to "Hindi" (language).
    • Advised that Hindi translation is likely unnecessary for Indian developers due to high English proficiency.
    • Noted Hindi only covers ~40% of India (22 official languages).

  4. Progress Tracking:

    • Completed Tasks: None — conversation is exploratory/brainstorming only.
    • No code, no tasks created, no tools invoked.

  5. Active Work State:

    • Current Focus: The user was presented with a list of fun/fancy language options for translation (Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Amharic, Icelandic, Klingon) and was asked "What catches your eye?" — no response yet.
    • No working code or active implementation.

  6. Recent Operations:

    • Last Agent Commands: None. No tools or agent commands were executed at any point in this conversation.
    • Tool Results Summary: N/A — no tools were called.
    • Pre-Summary State: The conversation was in a casual brainstorming phase with no active technical work.
    • Operation Context: The summarization was explicitly requested by the user, not triggered by token budget limits.

  7. Continuation Plan:

    • Pending Task 1: User has not yet chosen a language from the suggested list. Next step would be to hear their preference and potentially begin planning localization work.
    • No urgent or sequential tasks exist — conversation is in early exploratory stage.
    • Next Action: Await user's response on which language interests them, then potentially discuss implementation approach for translation/i18n.

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@brunoborges brunoborges changed the title [WIP] Add content translation for Arabic [WIP] Translate content to Arabic Feb 26, 2026
Copilot AI and others added 3 commits February 26, 2026 03:26
Add Arabic (ar) content translation YAML files for all 112 Java patte…
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…rn snippets

Create translations/content/ar/ with Arabic translations for all categories:
- collections (10 files)
- concurrency (10 files)
- datetime (6 files)
- enterprise (12 files)
- errors (7 files)
- io (10 files)
- language (21 files)
- security (5 files)
- streams (11 files)
- strings (7 files)
- tooling (8 files)

Translations use Modern Standard Arabic (فصحى), keeping Java technical
terms, class names, method names, and API names in English.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
feat: add Arabic (ar) translations for all 112 Java pattern snippets
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Translate all content files under content/{category}/*.yaml into
Modern Standard Arabic (فصحى) and place them at
translations/content/ar/{category}/{slug}.yaml.

Each file contains only translatable fields: title, oldApproach,
modernApproach, summary, explanation, whyModernWins (3 entries with
unchanged emoji icons), and support.description.

Java class names, method names, API names, JDK versions, and
annotations (e.g. @Inject, @transactional) are kept in English.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
@brunoborges
Add Arabic (ar) translation: locales, RTL support, UI strings, and 11…
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…2 content files

Co-authored-by: brunoborges <129743+brunoborges@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Translate content to Arabic Add Arabic (ar) translation Feb 26, 2026
@brunoborges brunoborges marked this pull request as ready for review February 26, 2026 03:38
@brunoborges brunoborges merged commit 4ff2a0a into main Feb 26, 2026
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