Translating the docs into Chinese
SkillAI & modelsRules for the Chinese (docs/zh) tree — what is translated and what stays verbatim, by position on the page and by term. Read BEFORE translating, reviewing, or editing any docs/zh page or the translation prompts in tools/docs/translate.ts.
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What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by clice-io/clice in .claude/skills/translate-docs/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
The zh tree reads as Chinese technical writing, not as glossed English. The
reader is a C++ developer who searches the web in English, so the rule is:
translate the prose, keep the names people search for, and never touch
anything a tool or a compiler reads. The mechanics (segment isomorphism,
report/record/check, the review mode) are in the docs skill; this
skill is only about the words.
By position on the page
| Where | Rule |
|---|---|
| Sidebar groups, nav bar | Group labels are translated (指南 / 语言服务器 / 命令行 / 设计 / 开发). Product names clice, catter, kotatsu, blog stay lowercase English; the zh nav calls the blog 博客. |
| Page and section headings (h1–h3) | Prose headings are translated, on every page including design/. A heading that is an identifier stays verbatim: [project], [[rules]], textDocument/hover, clice lint. A mixed heading translates only the prose part and keeps every code span. |
| Capability card name, summary, description | Translated, including names that start with code (auto deduction → auto 推导, Doxygen /// comments → Doxygen /// 注释). The one-sentence summary ends without a period, like the English. |
| Table headers and cells | Translated (选项 / 类型 / 默认值 / 状态). Code spans inside cells stay. |
| Status words | Fixed vocabulary only: 支持 / 部分支持 / 不支持 / 已实现 / 存根 / 计划中. The card sticker and the status table must use the same word. |
| Task-list items | Text translated, [ ] / [x] state kept. |
| Theme UI strings (查看示例, 悬停提示, 页脚) | Not in the pages; the site components switch on lang. |
Code blocks, snap fences, // snap: blocks | Never translated, byte-identical to English. Comments inside code blocks stay English too — they are part of the fixture, and a translated comment would no longer match the source the site renders. |
| Inline code, paths, config keys, command lines | Never translated; the checker compares them literally. |
| Issue references, URLs, link targets | Verbatim. |
| Compiler and tool output quoted in prose | Verbatim. |
By term
Translate:
- Feature names have fixed Chinese names — use the ones the overview page
uses: 代码补全, 悬停, 签名帮助, 代码导航, 文档链接, 语义 Token, 内联提示,
折叠范围, 文档符号, 格式化, 诊断, 代码操作; Lint stays Lint. LSP request
names stay as code when quoted (
textDocument/hover); the feature is named in Chinese. - C++ concepts with an established Chinese term: 结构化绑定, 范围 for 循环, 概念, 模板特化, 显式实例化, 折叠表达式, 参数包, 注入类名. On first use in a page, give the English in full-width parentheses when the English is what one would search for: 结构化绑定(structured bindings), 最令人烦恼的解析(most vexing parse).
- Common nouns: translation unit → 翻译单元, compilation database → 编译数据库, header → 头文件, index → 索引, snapshot → 快照 (test snapshots and dependency snapshots alike), overload set → 重载集, crash → 崩溃, build → 构建, worker → worker (kept), language server → 语言服务器.
Keep English (never transliterate):
- Product and tool names: VS Code, Neovim, Zed, CMake, Bazel, clang, clang-format, clangd, GCC, MSVC, LLVM, Clang.
- Acronyms: LSP, AST, PCH, PCM, CDB, TU, ADL, CTAD, DAG, ABI, URI, C++23.
- Terms Chinese C++ developers use untranslated: Lambda, Token, Concept
(as the language feature; 概念 in prose is fine),
this, Preamble, fixture. When in doubt, keep the English term and add a short Chinese gloss rather than invent a translation.
Style
- Full-width punctuation inside Chinese sentences; a space between CJK and Latin text (prettier enforces it).
- No machine-translation calques: no "这个" as an article, no passive chains, no stacked 进行 / 对于 / 通过……的方式; split long relative clauses.
- Banned filler: 深入, 强大, 无缝, 赋能, 极大地, 显著地, 值得注意的是, 总而言之, 综上所述.
- Say what the English says, not word for word. A card summary must read as one sentence on its own.
- One term, one translation within a page; a status table row and the card it points to use identical wording.
Where the rules live in code
tools/docs/translate.ts embeds these rules in REVIEW_PROMPT. Change the
prompt and this skill together.
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- Sep 2026
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