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Prompt Circulates for Using Claude Code to Localize an App Into 10 Languages

November 5, 2026 at 02:45 EST

Software Dev & Coding

A post from the account Roundtable has circulated a ready-to-use prompt for Claude Code, Anthropic's AI coding tool, that asks it to make an existing app work in 10 languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese, Chinese and Indonesian.

Developer workflow · Claude Code

A prompt to make an existing app speak 10 languages

A community-shared prompt asks Claude Code to localize an app into English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese, Chinese and Indonesian. The premise: many people online do not use English as their first language, yet many apps are built for English only.

languages in the prompt

need extra layout or script handling (Arabic, Hindi)

step visible in the material ("Find")

Language scope of the prompt

Each block is one language. Arabic and Hindi are highlighted because they need attention to layout and script.

Indonesian

Chinese

Japanese

Hindi

Arabic

German

French

Portuguese

Spanish

English

10 languages

Widely spoken languages with standard text handling (8)

Languages needing layout or script care (Arabic, Hindi)

East Asian and Indonesian entries, shown in the list for completeness

Workflow as described

1. Find

Locate user-facing text in the codebase

→

2. Extract

Move text into resource files (not fully visible)

→

3. Translate

Generate per-language files (not fully visible)

Why it is appealing

Repetitive string extraction and file updates can be delegated to an AI agent.
Could lower the cost of multilingual software for small teams.
Covers several of the world's most widely spoken languages.

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