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Languages

Which languages EasyQLab checks, what is specific about the fifteen it works with most, which names and codes it reads in a file name, and what "partial support" means for right-to-left, Asian and complex scripts.

EasyQLab checks translations from English into 69 languages, and most of them have full support. The language of each file is read from its name: see Naming the files, and the codes for every language in All languages below.

The fifteen languages we work with most

These have dedicated language rules for the AI review of the translation: the conventions of each language's reference body (the RAE for Spanish, the Académie française and the OQLF for French, the Accademia della Crusca for Italian, and so on), applied when the translation is read against its original.

Number, percent and quotation conventions by variant

For Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and German, EasyQLab knows how each variant writes numbers, percentages and quotation marks. A "1,000.50" in a German translation is flagged because German writes "1.000,50". The variant comes from the file name: _spa-ES, _fre-CA, _por-PT, _ger-CH. Without a region, the first row of each language applies.

French spacing. In France a space goes before ? ! ; : %, € and the closing ». In Canada it goes only before : %, € and », not before ? ! ;. EasyQLab doesn't flag the space your variant expects.

Spelling

The spelling check (C44 Spelling) uses a dictionary per language and variant: Spanish (ES, US, MX), French, Italian, Portuguese (BR, PT), German (DE, CH), Russian and Greek. It lets through words that are also in the source, the client's brands and glossary, acronyms, codes and proper names.

In every other language, typos are still caught by the AI review of the translation. Grammar is not checked yet.

All languages

Support says how far the checks go (see What "partial" means). In the file name lists the codes EasyQLab reads; the language's English name works too (Korean, Haitian Creole), and for many languages so does its own name or its Spanish name. Capitals don't matter.

"Language rules" marks the fifteen languages above (Chinese counts twice, once per script). For Spanish and Portuguese, the code with a region (spa-US, es-MX, por-BR, pt-PT) is read too.

Codes that are not read on their own

• no, to, id, sm, yo, bo and ps are everyday words, so they are not read as Norwegian, Tongan, Indonesian, Samoan, Yoruba, Tibetan or Pashto. Use the three-letter code or the English name.
• Country codes such as KR, JP, CN or BR are not languages. TW alone is Twi: for Traditional Chinese, write zh-TW.

What "partial" means

A language has full support when it is written with an alphabet and separates words with spaces. There, every check means what it says.

A language with partial support is still analysed, and its findings count in the result. But the checks that depend on where a line breaks — orphan words, text volume, margins — don't mean the same as in a Latin-script language. Take them as a hint.

The screen marks these languages with partial support ⓘ, and the badge explains the reason, one of these three:

Right-to-left languages

Arabic, Farsi, Dari, Hebrew, Urdu, Pashto and Yiddish are checked like any other language: text, numbers, structure, images and the translation itself. In Arabic and Urdu, Latin punctuation inside the text — a Latin comma or question mark where the language has its own — is flagged by C28 Script-native marks.

For images, EasyQLab detects mirrored layouts: when a right-to-left page should flip, an image that stayed on the same side is flagged.