dsh-plugin-locale-tr

Türkçe | English

Turkish (tr) language pack for the DeepSeek Harness web GUI.

DeepSeek Harness ships English and Simplified Chinese. This plugin adds Turkish as a third selectable language — without modifying a single core file. It uses the language-pack extension point that @deepseek-ai/dsh-client-locale documents for plugin authors:

• ctx.locale.addLanguage({ id: 'tr', label: 'Türkçe', fallback: 'en' }) adds the catalog entry, which is what makes Türkçe appear in Settings → General → Language.
• ctx.locale.register(namespace, 'tr', dictionary) contributes the translated strings for each namespace.

Coverage

Namespaces	45
Strings	1,870 / 1,870
Target build	DeepSeek Harness 0.1.7-rc.2

Chat, sidebar, settings, tool results, plan mode, subagents, session trajectory, scheduled tasks, plugin manager, voice input, document/Excel/PDF preview, and keyboard shortcuts.

Any key this pack does not carry falls back along the locale chain to English, so the interface never renders a raw key name.

Install

# 1. Clone the pack somewhere permanent
git clone https://github.com/jevgpt/dsh-plugin-locale-tr.git ~/.dsh/plugins/dsh-plugin-locale-tr

# 2. Put it where your profile can resolve it
mkdir -p ~/.dsh/profiles/desktop/node_modules/dsh-plugin-locale-tr
cp -r ~/.dsh/plugins/dsh-plugin-locale-tr/{package.json,lib,README.md,LICENSE} \
      ~/.dsh/profiles/desktop/node_modules/dsh-plugin-locale-tr/

// 3. Declare it in the profile manifest
//    ~/.dsh/profiles/desktop/package.json
"dependencies": {
  "dsh-plugin-locale-tr": "file:/absolute/path/to/dsh-plugin-locale-tr"
}

# 4. Add it to the profile's patch layer
#    ~/.dsh/profiles/desktop/cordis.patch.yml
- insert:
    - id: locale-tr
      name: dsh-plugin-locale-tr

The insert form is required. A patch that carries a bare id targets an existing row; when no row matches, the loader warns and skips it, so - id: locale-tr alone silently loads nothing.

Restart DeepSeek Harness, then choose Türkçe in Settings → General → Language. The choice is durable, so it survives later restarts. A browser that reports Turkish as its language starts in Turkish without any selection.

Remove

Delete the - insert: block from cordis.patch.yml and restart. Turkish disappears from the selector and the interface returns to the previously selected language.

How it works

package.json          dsh.client declaration: platform "web", inject the locale package
lib/index.js          host half — intentionally empty; it exists so the package is a
                      legitimate Loader row the client scan can resolve
lib/client.js         browser half — generated, registers the language and dictionaries
src/dictionaries/     one file per namespace: the English/Chinese source rows this pack
                      was translated from, plus the Turkish values
scripts/              extract, build, verify, and drift-check tooling
tests/                integrity, placeholder, manifest and integration gates

The dsh client module loader discovers a package by reading its manifest: a dsh.client declaration with platform: 'web' plus a ./client export. It then serves that bundle and calls its exported apply inside the client's Cordis fiber.

The bundle only ever calls the documented public API. It touches no private internals, so it keeps working as the client evolves — new UI strings simply fall back to English until they are translated here.

Development

Requires Node.js 22.19 or later — the same floor as dsh, and what the test script's node --test glob needs. No dependencies.

npm run build        # regenerate lib/client.js from src/dictionaries/
npm run verify       # load the bundle in a loader sandbox and assert its registrations
npm test             # dictionary integrity, placeholder, CJK and manifest gates
npm run test:all     # verify + test

lib/client.js is generated and committed, because dsh loads it straight from the installed package and npm consumers run no build step. CI rebuilds it and fails if the committed bytes differ.

Integration check

npm test proves the artifact is well-formed. To also prove that Turkish actually resolves, run the integration suite against a real installation — it takes the app's own dictionaries, loads this pack on top of them, and drives the locale service's real lookup algorithm:

npx --yes @electron/asar extract "<resources>/app.asar" .dsh-extract
DSH_EXTRACT=.dsh-extract npm run test:e2e

It asserts that all 1,870 translated keys resolve to the Turkish value that was registered, that placeholders still substitute, that a feature namespace falls through to the common dictionary, and that selecting English still renders English. Without DSH_EXTRACT the suite skips with a reason, so npm test stays green on a clean checkout.

Keeping up with dsh

A language pack is bound to the copy a build ships: when dsh gains keys, they fall back to English; when it drops keys, this pack carries dead entries. Neither breaks anything, so nothing surfaces the drift on its own.

# Extract app.asar once, then compare against that full package set
npx --yes @electron/asar extract "<resources>/app.asar" .dsh-extract
npm run check:drift -- --packages .dsh-extract/dsh/node_modules/@deepseek-ai
npm run extract -- --packages .dsh-extract/dsh/node_modules/@deepseek-ai

check:drift exits non-zero when keys are missing, so it works as a CI gate. extract rewrites src/dictionaries/ while preserving every existing translation — only genuinely new keys appear as null. Translate those, then npm run build.

scripts/dsh-app.mjs locates an installed app automatically, but a desktop install keeps most packages inside app.asar, so pass --packages for a complete comparison. A partial set is detected and rejected with exit code 2 rather than reported as mass drift.

Contributing

Corrections to the Turkish wording are the most valuable contribution. Edit src/dictionaries/<namespace>.json, run npm run build && npm run test:all, and open a pull request. See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Notes

• Values that stay identical to English are deliberate: format templates ({value}M), unit suffixes ({value} tok/s), identifiers (compact, export), and technology names Turkish UIs conventionally leave untranslated (JSON, Terminal, Markdown).
• Product names, model ids, command tokens, and file extensions are never translated.
• The pack was generated against DeepSeek Harness 0.1.7-rc.2. DSH is in developer preview and its strings change between releases; run the drift check after an update.

License

MIT. This is an unofficial community language pack and is not affiliated with DeepSeek AI.