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Languages

Octa's interface, menus, dialogs, the status bar, the SQL and multi-search panels, the right-click menus, and the Settings dialog (including its hover tooltips), can be shown in any of 13 languages.

Change it under Settings → Appearance → Language. The switch is live: the interface updates on the next frame, with no restart.

Available languages

Code Language
en English
de Deutsch
es Español
fr Français
it Italiano
nl Nederlands
pt Português
pl Polski
sv Svenska
da Dansk
no Norsk
fi Suomi
tr Türkçe

The chosen code is stored as language in your settings.toml.

Good to know

  • Machine-generated translations. The non-English catalogs are machine-translated and may be refined over time. English is the master; anything not yet translated falls back to the English string rather than showing a blank or a key.
  • What stays in English on purpose. Technical identifiers are not translated, so they read the same in every language: format names (Parquet, JSON, …), database engine names, theme names (Nord, Dracula, …), schema-export targets, and low-level reader error messages.
  • Number formatting is separate. The decimal mark and digit grouping are controlled by Number style (English 1,234.56 vs European 1.234,56) in Settings → Table View, independent of the UI language.

Scripts not yet offered

Only Latin-script languages whose accented characters the bundled font already covers are available. Cyrillic, CJK (Chinese / Japanese / Korean), and right-to-left scripts (Arabic, Hebrew) are out of scope for now: they need bundled fonts and, for RTL, layout work that Octa does not yet do.

See also

  • Settings reference lists every setting, including Language and Number style.
  • Non-English data is handled separately from the UI language, encodings and separators are detected per file.