Localisation of Ctrl+B/I empty commands
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	Draceane
	May 21 2026, 7:03 PM

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Go to edit a page in the Czech Wikipedia using wikieditor: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EditPage/Special:Random
Enable syntax highlighting
When I select some text and press Ctrl+B/I, it's converted to bold/italic (apostrophes are added)
When I have an empty selection and press WEd icon, appears: '''Tučný text''' / ''Text kurzivou'' (Czech example)
With empty selection and pressing Ctrl+B/I, '''Bold''' / ''Italic'' appears

What should have happened instead?:
The text (Bold/Italic) should be localised respectively.

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Draceane created this task.May 21 2026, 7:03 PM

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It is already localizable, but someone needs to translate the messages into Czech on TranslateWiki.

In T426996#11946229, @Bhsd wrote:

It is already localizable, but someone needs to translate the messages into Czech on TranslateWiki.

They're already localized, and my Docker install shows that Ctrl+B and Ctrl+I do in fact paste the Czech localizations.

We need more context:

Which wiki is this on?
If this is on a non-WMF wiki, which versions of MediaWiki and WikiEditor does it run?
Is your interface language Czech?

jhsoby updated the task description. (Show Details)May 21 2026, 10:12 PM

Based on the edited description and my tests, this only occurs when the syntax highlighting (i.e. CodeMirror) is enabled, so I'll redirect this task to that project.

@happy5214 I added a couple points in the description to make it clearer how to reproduce this. The issue is that when syntax highlighting is on, it for some reason uses the messages codemirror-keymap-bold/codemirror-keymap-italic (which aren't yet translated into Czech), whereas WikiEditor without syntax highlighting uses the messages wikieditor-toolbar-tool-bold-example/wikieditor-toolbar-tool-italic-example, which are translated into Czech.

In T426996#11946802, @jhsoby wrote:

@happy5214 I added a couple points in the description to make it clearer how to reproduce this. The issue is that when syntax highlighting is on, it for some reason uses the messages codemirror-keymap-bold/codemirror-keymap-italic (which aren't yet translated into Czech), whereas WikiEditor without syntax highlighting uses the messages wikieditor-toolbar-tool-bold-example/wikieditor-toolbar-tool-italic-example, which are translated into Czech.

Yeah, that's intentional. Why else would CodeMirror have the messages in the first place?

I guess the question is why CodeMirror needs to use its own messages for this – couldn't it just use WikiEditor's messages? But I guess CodeMirror is used for more than just WikiEditor, so it probably needs to use its own messages.

In T426996#11946811, @jhsoby wrote:

But I guess CodeMirror is used for more than just WikiEditor, so it probably needs to use its own messages.

Exactly.

As is explained, there is nothing wrong in the code base.

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