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Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR) UI localization #867
Description
What are you trying to do?
I use Hex on macOS with the system language set to Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR). Since Portuguese isn't one of the interface languages in src/desktop/i18n.rs (LANGUAGE_CHOICES currently has English, Polski, 中文, 日本語, Deutsch, Español, and Українська), the System option falls back to English and there's no Portuguese option under Interface language.
What would help?
Add Brazilian Portuguese as an interface language: a pt entry ("Português (Brasil)") in LANGUAGE_CHOICES and a matching column in TRANSLATIONS, so a Mac set to pt-BR opens Hex in Portuguese. This would work the same way as the Chinese localization in #778.
I'm a native Brazilian Portuguese speaker and happy to review the translations, especially terms like dictation, vocabulary, replacements, and meetings, where literal translations tend to read poorly.
Activity
Labs #867: interface language localization
thdxr commentedon Nov 1, 2026
adding a language is just one more entry in
LANGUAGE_CHOICESand one more column inTRANSLATIONS, the same as spanish and ukrainian. system detection already turns pt-BR intopt, there's just no column for it yet, so it falls back to english. it'll start behind a labs toggle so the first translations can get reviewed before anyone sees them by default.every_translated_string_has_every_languagefails, so the first pass will be machine-quality until someone reviews it.once it's on dev, if you can go through the strings and flag terms that read wrong (ditado, vocabulário, substituições, reuniões) that'd help.
there's a candidate fix in #872 but it doesn't build on macos yet
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Labs #867: interface language / localization
thdxr commentedon Nov 1, 2026
hex didn't have portuguese as an interface language, so system fell back to english on a pt-BR mac. there's now a português (brasil) option behind settings › labs › brazilian portuguese interface, and with it on hex follows a pt-BR system language too. if you can look over the wording (ditado, vocabulário, substituições, reuniões) once it's out that'd help
added in #872, behind a labs toggle that's off by default: turn on it in settings › labs. it'll be in the next dev build
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Labs anomalyco#867: interface language / localization (anomalyco#872)
Português (Brasil) is a normal interface language, not a Labs toggle (#…
thdxr commentedon Nov 1, 2026
brazilian portuguese doesn't need a labs toggle anymore. it's a normal interface language now (#876): pick Português (Brasil) under general › advanced › interface language, and hex uses it on its own if your system language is portuguese
the strings haven't had a native speaker look at them yet, so if anything reads off let us know
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