Add Kurdish (Sorani) locale (ckb) - #3873
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Register the Kurdish (Sorani) translation so it can be selected in the UI, and document the actual steps for adding a locale and how GlotPress import/export discovers languages. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Works as expected. Thanks! I was able to use WordPress Studio in Central Kurdish (Sorani) RTL language.
Including the .jed.json should be enough to keep updating translations automatically by Buildkite CI fetch_glotpress_translations 👍 .
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The changes look good and work as expected 👍
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Claude Code wired the new translation file into the locale registry, identified all the places a locale needs to be registered (translation dictionary, supported-locale type, display-name map), and updated the localization docs to match the actual workflow. All changes were reviewed manually.
Proposed Changes
Adds Kurdish (Sorani) as a selectable language in Studio. Users who read Kurdish (Sorani) can now pick it from the language selector in Preferences and have the UI render in their language (falling back to English for any untranslated strings, as with every other locale).
Also corrects the localization docs: the "Supported Languages" section previously described a stale language count and an inaccurate step (editing the derived
supportedLocalesarray). It now lists the real steps for adding a locale and explains that the GlotPress export is driven purely by the presence ofstudio-<locale>.jed.jsonfiles — there is no separate allowlist.Note: Kurdish (Sorani) is a right-to-left language. Studio already supports RTL locales (Arabic, Hebrew), so no new RTL plumbing was needed.
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