[Rich Text Editor]: Devise plan for i18n wrt LaTeX formula editor #5643

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6. rtibbles commented on Mar 5, 2026

   

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   Investigation update on mathlive i18n:

   There are two separate localization gaps:

   1. Editing/navigation announcements (e.g., "start of fraction", "deleted:", "numerator") — these are hardcoded in English in mathlive's a11y.ts. Filed upstream as arnog/mathlive#2948. We can work around this by monkey-patching the announce hook to post-process and translate the finite set of known English strings. Tracked in Monkey-patch mathlive screen reader announcements for localization #5743.

   2. Math content speech (reading the actual formulas aloud) — this relies on the Speech Rule Engine (SRE) library, which does not support Arabic or Portuguese. Adding a new SRE locale requires translating ~2,500 strings (mostly symbol names) and defining math speech rules. This is a significantly larger effort and not something we can easily monkey-patch.
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   We will fix 1 with a monkey patch. We cannot fix 2, because it will be too onerous.

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