Feature Request: Traditional Chinese (繁體中文) Localization
Thank you for bringing Sysinternals ZoomIt to macOS — it's an excellent tool and I use it daily.
The request
I'd appreciate it if the ZoomIt for Mac interface could support Traditional Chinese (繁體中文, language code zh-Hant).
Please note: this is specifically about Traditional Chinese (繁體中文), which is distinct from Simplified Chinese (简体中文, zh-Hans). Simplified Chinese is not a substitute — users in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau rely on Traditional characters, and a wrong variant is more jarring than no localization at all.
Why it matters
- ZoomIt has become a mainstream screen-annotation tool used in many Taiwan-based classrooms, live demos, conference talks, and video tutorials.
- The main interface text I'd love translated lives in the Settings dialog (hotkeys, zoom, draw, type, snip, record, webcam, panorama tabs) and the menu-bar item — roughly the 600+ user-facing strings in the current binary.
- The on-screen annotation tools (whitescreen / drawing / zoom overlays) contain very little text, so the real translation surface is fairly small and would be a low-effort, high-quality improvement.
Suggested implementation approach
Since the project currently has no .lproj localisation resources and all UI strings are hard-coded in the Swift executable, the cleanest path would be to:
- Move user-facing strings into Localizable.strings (or SwiftUI String(localized:)).
- Add a zh-Hant.lproj resource with Traditional Chinese translations.
- Honour the system language, or expose a language setting in the Settings dialog.
This would let non-English users run ZoomIt in their own language with zero effort, and would follow the same localization pattern Apple recommends.
If you'd prefer not to localise right now, even opening the strings to translation through the community (or listing them in the repo) would be greatly appreciated so volunteers could contribute a zh-Hant set.
Thanks for considering — happy to help test or proofread the Traditional Chinese translations if that's useful.
Feature Request: Traditional Chinese (繁體中文) Localization
Thank you for bringing Sysinternals ZoomIt to macOS — it's an excellent tool and I use it daily.
The request
I'd appreciate it if the ZoomIt for Mac interface could support Traditional Chinese (繁體中文, language code zh-Hant).
Please note: this is specifically about Traditional Chinese (繁體中文), which is distinct from Simplified Chinese (简体中文, zh-Hans). Simplified Chinese is not a substitute — users in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau rely on Traditional characters, and a wrong variant is more jarring than no localization at all.
Why it matters
Suggested implementation approach
Since the project currently has no .lproj localisation resources and all UI strings are hard-coded in the Swift executable, the cleanest path would be to:
This would let non-English users run ZoomIt in their own language with zero effort, and would follow the same localization pattern Apple recommends.
If you'd prefer not to localise right now, even opening the strings to translation through the community (or listing them in the repo) would be greatly appreciated so volunteers could contribute a zh-Hant set.
Thanks for considering — happy to help test or proofread the Traditional Chinese translations if that's useful.