CommandCodeAI / CommandCodeAI/command-code
Feature request: Multi-language UI with a language selector (i18n)
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Description
Feature Description
Problem
The entire product surface — website, docs, desktop app, and CLI — is English-only.
There is no language option anywhere in Settings (General / Appearance / Agent /
Taste / MCP / Account), and no way for users to switch the interface language.
For a tool positioned as a frontier coding agent, this is an adoption bottleneck
in non-English markets.
Suggested solution
Add a Language dropdown under Settings → General, letting each user
freely pick their interface language. Suggested launch set:
- English (default)
- 简体中文 (zh-CN)
- 日本語 (ja)
- Español (es)
- Português (pt-BR)
- Deutsch (de) / Français (fr) / 한국어 (ko) as follow-ups
Scope for v1: desktop app UI + the most-visited docs pages.
Implementation notes:
- Build the i18n layer on a standard framework so adding a language is a
translation file, not a code change - If in-house translation isn't planned, a community workflow (e.g., Crowdin)
keeps marginal cost near zero — especially if the i18n layer is added early
rather than retrofitted later
I'm filing this as a product suggestion; happy to help test new languages once
shipped.
Use Case
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Market size: The majority of the world's ~30M developers are non-native
English speakers. China alone has ~7M professional developers (the largest
single population globally), and strong dev communities exist across Japan,
Brazil, Korea, and Spanish-speaking Latin America. -
Competitive parity: Cursor, Windsurf, and Trae already ship official
multi-language / Simplified Chinese UIs. Trae's rapid growth is partly
attributed to localization. English-only is becoming a visible gap. -
Brand consistency: Non-English content about Command Code today is almost
entirely third-party reviews and machine-translated blog posts — mixed
messaging, no quality control, no positioning leverage. Official localization
would consolidate all of it. -
Low cost, compounding return: A language dropdown is a one-time i18n
investment; each new language after that is just a translation file, often
community-contributed.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by mapping the desktop app's Settings → General entry point and the most-visited docs pages named in the issue. Determine how language preferences and translations should be represented, then define the supported launch languages and fallback behavior. Done means a selectable interface language works for the v1 desktop UI and scoped documentation pages.
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Assessment
- Domain
- desktop, documentation, internationalization, localization
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100