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Add initial Italian interface and Windows installer language - #776

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Italian is absent from both the interface language list and the Windows installer. This adds an initial Italian interface catalog and an Italian installer option while retaining English and Simplified Chinese.

The application catalog contains 378 messages covering the main menus, editor commands, panels, preference navigation and language selection, plus 17 utility messages for character-encoding families. Familiar terms such as Debug, Breakpoint, Watch, Snippet, Template and Makefile are retained. Secondary dialog contents and technical messages still fall back to English. Italian remains selectable under Tools > Options > Environment > Appearance > Language; restart after changing language.

The Windows installer adds 49 Italian strings, including a recoverable language-hint write error. English is the installer and Windows first-launch default. An explicit installer choice supplies the IDE default through a separate install-language.ini, and saved user language preferences take priority. Early translator setup and environment settings share one resolver, so first-run compiler discovery and theme selection remain intact. The uninstaller removes the installation hint. Non-Windows locale defaults are unchanged.

CMake embeds the new catalogs and includes the Italian Qt base catalog when available for a static build. Xmake already discovers translation files by wildcard.

Validation used Qt 6.11.2, a Windows x64 Release build and NSIS 3.12. All three installer catalogs have matching keys; Italian placeholders are preserved. In separate offline Windows Sandbox sessions, English was preselected, all three wizard languages were available, the corresponding IDE menus appeared, an existing saved language remained in effect after changing the installation hint, and uninstallation removed the hint. The test package used the unchanged production installer source with an additional hidden section supplying the existing dynamic Qt runtime for testing; upstream production static-Qt packaging is unchanged. Detailed installer results.

English default and available installer languages

Italian installer components

Italian IDE after installation

Italian interface language selection

@lellomele lellomele changed the title Add initial Italian interface translation Add initial Italian interface and Windows installer language Nov 5, 2026
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