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Japanese text in a date/time field: field_text computed month, day and AM/PM names for English only, so a Japanese run's datetime1..datetime13 fields kept whatever text the file was saved with, and the Insert ▸ Date and Time dialog listed no Japanese samples.

Japanese now follows PowerPoint's Japanese Date and Time list — months 1月..12月, weekdays 日曜日..土曜日 in the full date, 24-hour times with no AM/PM form:

field English (2026-10-09 20:05:07) Japanese
datetime/datetimeFigureOut/datetime1 10/9/2026 2026/10/9 (unchanged)
datetime2 Friday, October 9, 2026 2026年10月9日金曜日
datetime3 / datetime4 / datetime5 9 October 2026 / October 9, 2026 / 9-Oct-26 2026年10月9日
datetime6 / datetime7 October 26 / Oct-26 2026年10月
datetime8 / datetime9 10/9/2026 8:05 PM / …:07 PM 2026/10/9 20:05 / 2026/10/9 20:05:07
datetime10 / datetime11 20:05 / 20:05:07 unchanged
datetime12 / datetime13 8:05 PM / 8:05:07 PM 20:05 / 20:05:07 (was None)
  • ja, ja-JP, ja_JP, JA-jp match by primary subtag (so jam doesn't); every other language still returns None and keeps its saved text, and the English strings are byte-for-byte unchanged.
  • The mapping is documented as a comment on the match kind; field_text, is_date_field, DateTime and short_date signatures are unchanged.
  • The Insert ▸ Date and Time dialog already offered ja-JP; it now lists Japanese samples for every kind, and its helper text no longer says the names are English-only. date_sample's comment in crates/engine/src/cmd/insert.rs was updated too.

Tests

cargo test -p deckcraft-text → 84 passed, 0 failed; cargo clippy -p deckcraft-text --all-targets -- -D warnings clean; cargo fmt --all -- --check clean. The dialog test was run too: cargo test -p deckcraft-ui-egui --lib datetime_tests → 3 passed (clippy on that crate is clean as well), plus cargo test -p deckcraft-engine --lib cmd::insert → 19 passed.

japanese_formats_of_every_type              every kind for a fixed Friday
japanese_tag_forms_all_reach_the_japanese_names   ja, ja-JP, ja_JP, JA-jp, trimmed; jam is not Japanese
japanese_weekday_zero_and_a_leap_day        Sunday 2026-02-01 → 日曜日; leap 2024-02-29; 2026-02-30 → None
languages_without_names_still_keep_their_saved_text   en unchanged, de-DE/ko-KR/fr-FR still None
datetime_tests::choosing_japanese_lists_and_inserts_a_japanese_date   the dialog path, end to end

Notes / uncertainty

  • The mapping is our best reading of PowerPoint's Japanese list, not an observation of it: no Japanese Office instance is available here, and reading the Office bundle is forbidden by AGENTS.md. datetime2 (2026年10月9日金曜日) and the numeric kinds are unambiguous; datetime5/6/7 are the speculative ones — Japanese months are numeric and a two-digit Gregorian year reads as an era year, so the English abbreviations fold onto their full forms and the four-digit year is kept (matching CLDR ja y年M月).
  • The parenthesised short style (金) maps to none of the thirteen kinds, so it is not emitted; the code comment says so.
  • 和暦 (Japanese era) is not implemented here; note that a ja-JP-u-ca-japanese tag matches ja and gets Gregorian named dates (it already got the Gregorian short date before).
  • The dialog still does not follow the document/run language — that would be new wiring, not done here.
  • Docs: docs/localization-parity.md (Japanese row, timestamp, revision history) and one ROADMAP.md progress row.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added Japanese month and weekday names and localized date/time layouts across the available named formats, using four-digit years and a 24-hour clock.
    • Japanese language tags, including ja-JP and other ja-* variants, are recognized for date/time fields.
    • Date & Time dialogs show Japanese samples and distinguish formats with duplicate labels by displaying their format types.
    • Numeric date formats remain unchanged; English formatting is also unchanged.
  • Documentation

    • Updated date/time guidance to describe Japanese support and note that clock-free formats may return an empty string in WASM.

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CI note (from the contributor side): the workflow run on this branch shows action_required — GitHub holds workflow runs from first-time contributors until a maintainer approves them, so no job has started yet and nothing has failed. A maintainer clicking Approve and run on the run will start it.

While waiting I ran the same gate locally (macOS, rustc 1.99.0, wasm32-unknown-unknown installed):

$ cargo xtask ci
CI summary: all 7 steps passed (fmt, pdf-deps, clippy, test, assets, layers, wasm)

So the branch is expected to be green once the run is approved.

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Rebased onto main (a178b99). The only conflict was the ROADMAP.md progress log (and a revision-history row in docs/file-format-parity.md) — both sides had added a row in the same place; both are kept now. No code changed: the patch is otherwise identical to the one whose local CI run is described above, so the verification still applies.

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Named date/time formats now produce Japanese output for Japanese language tags. The UI supports selecting these formats and distinguishes duplicate sample labels. Tests and localization records cover the change.

Changes: Japanese Date and Time

Layer / File(s) Summary
Japanese date/time formatting
crates/text/src/datetime.rs, crates/engine/src/cmd/insert.rs
The formatter recognizes Japanese language tags and produces Japanese dates, weekdays, numeric months, and 24-hour times. Tests cover the date/time kinds, tag variants, dates, English output, unsupported languages, and numeric formats.
Japanese format selection
crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/datetime_tests.rs
The UI appends the format kind to duplicate sample labels. Tests cover Japanese format selection, insertion, field kind, and language metadata.
Localization records
ROADMAP.md, docs/localization-parity.md
The roadmap and localization documentation record Japanese date/time formats and supported Japanese language-tag forms.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant DateTimeDialog
  participant FieldInsertion
  participant field_text
  DateTimeDialog->>FieldInsertion: select Japanese date format
  FieldInsertion->>field_text: evaluate field with ja-JP metadata
  field_text-->>FieldInsertion: return Japanese date text
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Possibly related issues

  • storytold/gridcraft#2355: This change adds Japanese date and time formats, but does not cover the issue’s other regional formats.
  • storytold/craft-libs#198: This change implements Japanese date/time formatting and primary-subtag language matching in DeckCraft.

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Suggested reviewers: lloydnicholson, nikitkara

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 74f91

The format choices are distinguishable, but the dialog still inaccurately describes Japanese date output. The wording can be corrected as a bounded follow-up.

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The change remains within existing date/time formatting and document-editing paths. Validation, document targeting, and rollback controls are preserved; no material security risk was identified.

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  • inferred — The inspected expansion affects computed document text and existing insertion operations in the active presentation. Kind and language select fixed formatting branches; they do not introduce an executable operation, external-resource destination, or additional authority.

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  • observed — Date validation precedes formatting, table access uses checked lookups, and unknown kinds return None. Insertion independently validates command parameters and format availability before mutation. The added locale support does not replace those controls.

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  • observed — The existing insertion transition snapshots document and selection state and restores them on application failure. The outer command retains rollback and undo handling. Non-caret insertion targets the current slide, and dialog cancellation does not invoke insertion.
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🟡 Minor · Show the format kind when Japanese samples are identical. · dialogs.rs:2504

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Show the format kind when Japanese samples are identical.

datetime3, datetime4, and datetime5 now have the same Japanese sample. This row renders only the sample, so users cannot identify which format kind they select. The dialog can therefore insert a different field kind from the one the user intended. Add the kind to duplicate sample labels while keeping the sample visible.

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Rebased onto current main and force-pushed. The conflicts were documentation-only (the header and revision-history rows); code is unchanged, so the verification described above still applies.

field_text computed month, day and AM/PM names for English only, so a Japanese
run's datetime1..datetime13 fields kept the text the file was saved with, and the
Insert > Date and Time dialog listed no Japanese samples.

Japanese now follows PowerPoint's Japanese Date and Time list: months 1月..12月,
weekdays 日曜日..土曜日 in the full date, 24-hour times with no AM/PM form, and a
Japanese layout for every kind (the mapping is a comment on the match). `ja`,
`ja-JP`, `ja_JP` and `JA-jp` match by primary subtag, so `jam` doesn't; every other
language still returns None and keeps its saved text, and the English strings are
byte-for-byte unchanged.

The abbreviated English kinds have no Japanese counterpart (months are numeric,
and a two-digit Gregorian year reads as an era year in Japanese), so datetime5
folds onto the full date (2026年10月9日) and datetime6/datetime7 both give
2026年10月. That mapping is our best reading of PowerPoint's Japanese list, not an
observation of it.

Tests: every kind for a fixed Friday, the ja/ja-JP/ja_JP/JA-jp tags, a Sunday and
a leap day, and the languages that still keep their saved text. The dialog test
picks Japanese and inserts the sample. The date_sample comment in
crates/engine/src/cmd/insert.rs no longer says the names are English only.
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Addressed the documentation findings in the latest push (rebased onto current main, so the files were re-resolved): the historical revision-history and progress-log rows keep their original dates again, the duplicate table rows the merge left behind are consolidated (the row this PR rewrites is the only copy now), and this PR's own entry is dated 2026-10-20. No code changed in that pass, so the verification above still applies.

Japanese has no abbreviated month or day name, so datetime3, datetime4
and datetime5 compute the same text (2026年10月9日) and datetime6 and
datetime7 both compute 2026年10月. The Date and Time dialog lists only
the sample, so those rows were indistinguishable and a user could insert
a different format from the one they meant. When two rows share a
sample, the row now also names its kind — "2026年10月9日 (datetime4)" —
and rows with a unique sample keep the bare text. Clicking still inserts
the row's kind either way.

The new kittest case proves the samples collide, the ambiguous labels are
listed with their kind, a unique sample stays bare, and picking the
named row inserts datetime4; it fails without the label change.

Docs: the new revision-history row is dated 2026-10-20 but
docs/localization-parity.md and ROADMAP.md still had Last reviewed/
Last updated 2026-10-17 and 2026-10-18. Put Last reviewed back to main's
2026-10-14 (the date the documents were reviewed), move Last updated to
2026-10-20 as every earlier update did, carry the change into ROADMAP's
Change line, and add the ROADMAP revision-history row that a progress-log
entry gets. Existing rows keep their original dates from main.

Verified on the branch: deckcraft-ui-egui 218 passed, 4 ignored (222
run, incl. the four Date and Time kittest cases); deckcraft-text 84
passed; deckcraft-engine 332 passed, 1 ignored, plus 6 integration;
cargo fmt --all -- --check clean; clippy --all-targets -D warnings on
deckcraft-text, deckcraft-engine and deckcraft-ui-egui clean.
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Addressed the review's finding in 9e715fc.

Duplicate Japanese samples (the outside-diff comment on dialogs.rs:2504) — Japanese has no abbreviated month or day name, so datetime3, datetime4 and datetime5 compute the same text (e.g. 2026年10月9日) and datetime6/datetime7 both compute 2026年10月. The dialog listed only the sample, so those rows were indistinguishable and a user could insert a different format from the one they meant. When two rows share a sample, the row now also names its kind (2026年10月9日 (datetime4)); a sample no other row shares keeps its bare text. Clicking still inserts the row's kind.

The new kittest case proves the samples do collide, the ambiguous labels are listed with their kind, a unique sample stays bare, and picking the named row inserts datetime4. It fails without the label change (checked by reverting it locally).

Docs — the new revision-history row is dated 2026-10-20 while docs/localization-parity.md and ROADMAP.md still had headers at 2026-10-17 / 2026-10-18. "Last reviewed" is back at main's 2026-10-14 (the date the documents were reviewed), "Last updated" is 2026-10-20 as in every earlier update, ROADMAP.md's Change line names this change, and its Revision history gained the row a progress-log entry gets. Existing revision-history and progress-log rows keep their original dates from main.

Verification (local, CARGO_BUILD_JOBS=2)

  • cargo test -p deckcraft-ui-egui: 218 passed, 4 ignored (222 run, incl. all four Date and Time kittest cases)
  • cargo test -p deckcraft-text: 84 passed
  • cargo test -p deckcraft-engine: 332 passed, 1 ignored (+2 chart_native, 4 show_clicks)
  • cargo fmt --all -- --check: clean
  • cargo clippy -p deckcraft-text -p deckcraft-engine -p deckcraft-ui-egui --all-targets -- -D warnings: clean

Conflicts resolved by keeping both sides:
- ROADMAP.md: main's newer header lines and progress-log and revision-history
  rows kept, with the branch's 2026-10-20 date-and-time entry kept beside main's
  entry of the same date. Code merged without conflicts.

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/// Samples `field_text` can compute for `lang`. Named months exist for English and Japanese;
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Describe Japanese samples accurately.

Japanese uses numeric month and day values. Some full-date formats include a named weekday. It does not use named month and day names in the same way as English. Update both descriptions to match the actual Japanese output.

Also applies to: 2539-2539

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Checked this against real PowerPoint, since the PR description says no Japanese Office instance was available. Only the field text was checked; I did not build or run the Rust code.

Setup. Windows, PowerPoint 16.0 build 20527, driven through COM with temporary presentations that were never saved to the repo and were closed without saving. The system clock was Tuesday 2026-10-27 19:43:50. The Windows region and UI language are en-US, so a Japanese-region machine might differ. I wrote a slide with <a:fld type="datetime1">..datetime13 whose <a:rPr> had lang="ja-JP" and a stale <a:t>. I opened it and read each text box's TextRange.Text.

Result for lang="ja-JP" (the PR's Japanese column for 2026-10-09 is in the third column):

field PowerPoint (ja-JP) PR
datetime1 10/27/2026 2026/10/9
datetime2 Tuesday, October 27, 2026 2026年10月9日金曜日
datetime3 令和8年10月27日 2026年10月9日
datetime4 2026年10月27日 2026年10月9日
datetime5 27-Oct-26 2026年10月9日
datetime6 令和8年10月 2026年10月
datetime7 令和八年十月二十七日 2026年10月
datetime8 26/10/27 19時43分 2026/10/9 20:05
datetime9 26/10/27 19時43分50秒 2026/10/9 20:05:07
datetime10 19:43 unchanged
datetime11 19:43:50 unchanged
datetime12 19時43分 20:05
datetime13 19時43分50秒 20:05:07

So only datetime4 and the two 24-hour kinds (10, 11) match the PR. In PowerPoint, datetime1, datetime2 and datetime5 stay English-shaped, datetime3/6/7 use the Japanese era (令和), and datetime8/9/12/13 use 時/分/秒. No kind in my run gave a weekday in Japanese (no 火曜日).

Other tags. A bare lang="ja" was not recomputed by PowerPoint: datetime3..datetime13 kept the stale text, while datetime2 came out as 2026年10月27日. lang="en-US" with altLang="ja-JP" gave the plain English text for all 13 kinds. The PR treats ja and ja-JP alike, and PowerPoint does not.

HeadersFooters path. I also set HeadersFooters.DateAndTime.Format 1..13 on a slide and set the date placeholder's language to 1041 (TextRange.LanguageID and TextFrame2.TextRange.LanguageID). The text stayed English for all 13 formats, and the saved XML had lang="en-US" altLang="ja-JP". TextRange.InsertDateTime(format, field) with LanguageID = 1041 was the same. So through COM, the Japanese strings only appeared when the XML itself carried lang="ja-JP".

The era forms (令和8年…) and the 26/10/27 pattern come from PowerPoint's Japanese list, so the mapping for datetime3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12 and 13 likely needs revisiting. I did not check how other languages behave, or a Japanese-region Windows.

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Measured 2026-10-27 19:43:50 with lang="ja-JP" on an en-US Windows,
PowerPoint 16.0 showed:
  datetime1  10/27/2026 (the system short date)
  datetime2  Tuesday, October 27, 2026 (the system long date)
  datetime3  令和8年10月27日
  datetime4  2026年10月27日
  datetime5  27-Oct-26
  datetime6  令和8年10月
  datetime7  令和八年十月二十七日
  datetime8  26/10/27 19時43分
  datetime9  26/10/27 19時43分50秒
  datetime10 19:43
  datetime11 19:43:50
  datetime12 19時43分
  datetime13 19時43分50秒

datetime1/datetime2 follow the OS regional settings, not the run's
language: on the measured en-US machine they read as the English short
and long date. chrono carries no month names and the crate cannot read
the OS regional settings, so those two keep the measured en-US shapes
and say so in a comment. datetime3/6/7 use the 令和 era (kanji numerals
for datetime7) and keep their saved text before 2019-05-01, where the
measurement says nothing about older eras.

Only ja-JP takes the Japanese formats, since PowerPoint did not expand
a bare lang="ja" like lang="ja-JP"; the ja/ja_JP/JA-jp spellings are
still accepted, and bare ja falls back to the generic numeric date and
the saved text. No kind shows a Japanese weekday.
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Your measurement was right, and it showed my mapping was wrong for ten of the thirteen kinds — thank you for running real PowerPoint. Fixed in 94f2fd0b.

The new ja-JP mapping (your moment, 2026-10-27 19:43:50):

field now
datetime1 10/27/2026 — OS regional short date
datetime2 Tuesday, October 27, 2026 — OS regional long date
datetime3 令和8年10月27日
datetime4 2026年10月27日
datetime5 27-Oct-26
datetime6 令和8年10月
datetime7 令和八年十月二十七日
datetime8 26/10/27 19時43分
datetime9 26/10/27 19時43分50秒
datetime10/11 19:43 / 19:43:50
datetime12 19時43分
datetime13 19時43分50秒

Notes on the judgement calls:

  • datetime1/datetime2 are the OS regional date, as you found; they are not Japanese patterns at all. This crate has no OS locale access and chrono carries no month names, so it emits the measured en-US shapes with a comment saying a ja-JP machine would differ. That is the honest limit rather than a silent guess.
  • Era: datetime3/6/7 use 令和, and datetime7 takes kanji numerals. For dates before 2019-05-01 the field now keeps its saved text instead of guessing 平成/昭和, since you did not measure those eras.
  • Bare ja vs ja-JP: you are right that PowerPoint does not expand a bare lang="ja". Only ja-JP (and ja_JP/JA-jp spellings) takes the Japanese formats now; bare ja keeps the generic rules. That is tested.
  • No weekday in any kind, as you saw — the old weekday form is gone.

deckcraft-text 95 passed, deckcraft-engine 458 passed, the UI datetime tests 4 passed, clippy -D warnings and fmt clean. The ROADMAP and localization-parity lines that claimed a Japanese weekday and an "every ja-* tag" behaviour are corrected in the same commit.

Still unverified: a Japanese-region Windows (where the OS regional dates differ) and the pre-Reiwa eras.

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