How can I contibute to the repository and add new language?

[PyAlaie]

Hello LM Studio team! I hope you are doing well.
I wonder how I can contribute to your localization project. I am a native Persian and I wanted to add Farsi language.

[YorkieDev]

Hi, @PyAlaie Instructions can be found here (instructions borrowed from the LM Studio discord):

We created a new git repo for localization: https://github.com/lmstudio-ai/localization

How to participate in localizing LM Studio:

1. Fork the localization repo
2. Take a look at the folder structure. Each language code (en, es, fr, etc) has a subdirectory.
3. If your language is not there yet, please create a new subdirectory
4. See this PR from the community as an example: Spanish translation #6

The goal is to have the same files/entries as the English version (see https://github.com/lmstudio-ai/localization/tree/main/en)

[PyAlaie]

Thanks for your answer, I have one more question:
Is there going to be a problem with the Persian language since, unlike other languages, it is right-to-left?

[yagil]

Hello @PyAlaie thanks. We are still working on RTL support in the UI so there may be sometime before we could include it in the app. You're welcome to get started on it if you wanted, or hold off.

[conquhare]

为何下载的LM-Studio\app-0.3.2\locales里有对应的语言pak文件，应用程序中却无法选择？比如zh-CN.pak