microsoft / microsoft/WSL

Mistranslations & Typos in Turkish translation still exist

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Since Jan 22, 2026.

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Description

### Windows Version

10.0.26200.7623

### WSL Version

2.6.2.0

### Are you using WSL 1 or WSL 2?

- [x] WSL 2
- [ ] WSL 1

### Kernel Version

6.6.87.2

### Distro Version

Ubuntu 24.04

### Other Software

_No response_

### Repro Steps

Compare the translation of [en-US](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/master/localization/strings/en-US/Resources.resw) localization strings to Turkish, with the Turkish ones provided [tr-TR](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/master/localization/strings/tr-TR/Resources.resw)

### Expected Behavior

WSL has proper Turkish translation after merging #14057 .

### Actual Behavior

Some of the prompts are still not properly translated altough localization pipeline was recently automated. There are still numerous mistranslations and typos in the turkish localization file.

Following lines need proper translation due to current translation being low quality (i.e. translation is not even plausible):
- [Line 185](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/a03462f50b5c609c13e5293207abf41e560d2e96/localization/strings/tr-TR/Resources.resw#L185)
- [Line 188](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/a03462f50b5c609c13e5293207abf41e560d2e96/localization/strings/tr-TR/Resources.resw#L188)
- [Line 194](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/a03462f50b5c609c13e5293207abf41e560d2e96/localization/strings/tr-TR/Resources.resw#L194)
- [Line 244](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/a03462f50b5c609c13e5293207abf41e560d2e96/localization/strings/tr-TR/Resources.resw#L244)
- [Line 248](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/a03462f50b5c609c13e5293207abf41e560d2e96/localization/strings/tr-TR/Resources.resw#L248)
- [Line 251-255](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/a03462f50b5c609c13e5293207abf41e560d2e96/localization/strings/tr-TR/Resources.resw#L251)
- [Line 297](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/a03462f50b5c609c13e5293207abf41e560d2e96/localization/strings/tr-TR/Resources.resw#L297)
- [Line 690](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/a03462f50b5c609c13e5293207abf41e560d2e96/localization/strings/tr-TR/Resources.resw#L690)
- [Line 702](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/a03462f50b5c609c13e5293207abf41e560d2e96/localization/strings/tr-TR/Resources.resw#L702)
- [Line 743](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/a03462f50b5c609c13e5293207abf41e560d2e96/localization/strings/tr-TR/Resources.resw#L743)
- [Line 790](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/a03462f50b5c609c13e5293207abf41e560d2e96/localization/strings/tr-TR/Resources.resw#L790)
- [Line 823](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/a03462f50b5c609c13e5293207abf41e560d2e96/localization/strings/tr-TR/Resources.resw#L823)
- [Line 831](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/a03462f50b5c609c13e5293207abf41e560d2e96/localization/strings/tr-TR/Resources.resw#L831)
- [Line 847](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/a03462f50b5c609c13e5293207abf41e560d2e96/localization/strings/tr-TR/Resources.resw#L847)
- [Line 866](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/a03462f50b5c609c13e5293207abf41e560d2e96/localization/strings/tr-TR/Resources.resw#L866)
- [Line 877](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/a03462f50b5c609c13e5293207abf41e560d2e96/localization/strings/tr-TR/Resources.resw#L877)
- [Line 951](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/a03462f50b5c609c13e5293207abf41e560d2e96/localization/strings/tr-TR/Resources.resw#L951)
- [Line 1052](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/a03462f50b5c609c13e5293207abf41e560d2e96/localization/strings/tr-TR/Resources.resw#L1052)
- [Line 1064](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/a03462f50b5c609c13e5293207abf41e560d2e96/localization/strings/tr-TR/Resources.resw#L1064)
- [Line 1077](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/a03462f50b5c609c13e5293207abf41e560d2e96/localization/strings/tr-TR/Resources.resw#L1077)
- [Line 1098](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/a03462f50b5c609c13e5293207abf41e560d2e96/localization/strings/tr-TR/Resources.resw#L1098)
- [Line 1121](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/a03462f50b5c609c13e5293207abf41e560d2e96/localization/strings/tr-TR/Resources.resw#L1121)
- [Line 1340](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/a03462f50b5c609c13e5293207abf41e560d2e96/localization/strings/tr-TR/Resources.resw#L1340)
- [Line 1346](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/a03462f50b5c609c13e5293207abf41e560d2e96/localization/strings/tr-TR/Resources.resw#L1346)
- [Line 1400](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/a03462f50b5c609c13e5293207abf41e560d2e96/localization/strings/tr-TR/Resources.resw#L1400)
- [Line 1769](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/a03462f50b5c609c13e5293207abf41e560d2e96/localization/strings/tr-TR/Resources.resw#L1769)

Typos (adding - removing - substituting couple of characters):
- [Line 902](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/a03462f50b5c609c13e5293207abf41e560d2e96/localization/strings/tr-TR/Resources.resw#L902)
- [Line 1124](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/a03462f50b5c609c13e5293207abf41e560d2e96/localization/strings/tr-TR/Resources.resw#L1124)
- [Line 1322](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/a03462f50b5c609c13e5293207abf41e560d2e96/localization/strings/tr-TR/Resources.resw#L1322)
- [Line 1365](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/a03462f50b5c609c13e5293207abf41e560d2e96/localization/strings/tr-TR/Resources.resw#L1365)

I can provide translations as well but using google translate just works.

### Diagnostic Logs

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