Glyphs localization

Skill yintzuyuan/glyphs-reference/skills/glyphs-localization

Translates Glyphs 3 UI terms between 14 languages using Hub-and-Spoke architecture via English. Use when translating Glyphs menu items, finding localized UI strings for plugin development, or looking up how a feature is named in another language.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add yintzuyuan/glyphs-reference --skill glyphs-localization

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Glyphs UI Localization Skill

Translate Glyphs 3 UI terms between 14 languages using Hub-and-Spoke architecture.

Run all scripts from this skill's base directory. Prepend the base directory path to scripts/ when executing.

Quick Start

# Auto-translate to English (from any language)
./scripts/translate-term.sh "取消"

# Translate to specific locale
./scripts/translate-term.sh "Cancel" "zh-Hant"

# Cross-language (goes through English hub)
./scripts/translate-term.sh "移除重疊" "ja"

# Rebuild cache after Glyphs update
./scripts/translate-term.sh --rebuild

# List available locales
./scripts/translate-term.sh --list-locales

Output Format

key: Remove Overlap
source: en
target: zh-Hant
translation: 移除重疊

Simple key-value format for easy parsing.

Supported Languages

See references/language-codes.md for complete list.

Common locales: en, zh-Hant, zh-Hans, ja, ko, de, fr, es

Architecture

Hub-and-Spoke: All translations go through English as the hub language.

zh-Hant → en → ja
         ↑
       (hub)

Three-tier search:

Main App: /Applications/Glyphs 3.app/Contents/Resources/{lang}.lproj/
Framework: .../Frameworks/GlyphsCore.framework/.../Resources/{lang}.lproj/
Plugins: .../PlugIns/*/.../Resources/{lang}.lproj/

NIB integration: English vocabulary includes terms from Base.lproj NIB files.

Cache

Cache stored at /tmp/glyphs-vocab-cache/. Auto-builds on first use.

Rebuild after Glyphs update:

./scripts/translate-term.sh --rebuild

Other Tools

search-glyphs-term.sh

Raw grep search for debugging:

./scripts/search-glyphs-term.sh "Remove Overlap" "zh-Hant"
./scripts/search-glyphs-term.sh --all-langs "Remove Overlap"
./scripts/search-glyphs-term.sh --format json "Filter" "ja"

extract-nib-strings.sh

Extract strings from NIB files:

./scripts/extract-nib-strings.sh --term "Remove Overlap"
./scripts/extract-nib-strings.sh --lang zh-Hant --format csv