Languages & Locales
The two different ways CareerForge speaks your language — the interface you read, and the CV conventions of the market you apply to.
"Language" in a job search means two different things, and CareerForge keeps them apart on purpose:
- The language you read CareerForge in — the dashboard, the command-line output, the README.
- The conventions a CV follows in the market you're applying to — what the document is even called, what paper size it prints on, whether it carries a photo.
They're independent. A Spanish speaker applying to a job in Germany reads the tool in Spanish, but their CV should follow German conventions. Below, each half on its own.
UI languages — the interface you read
The dashboard, CLI output, and README are available in 12 languages:
Arabic, Bengali, Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, and Spanish.
These translations are machine-translated, pending human review — so
English is canonical: if a translated string ever reads oddly or disagrees
with the English, the English is the source of truth. More languages are
planned, and contributions (corrections or whole new languages) are welcome via
i18n/CONTRIBUTING.md.
Locale packs — the conventions your CV follows
A locale pack is separate from UI language. It captures how a CV is expected to look in one market, so a document generated for that market reads like it belongs there. A pack settles things like:
| Convention | Examples |
|---|---|
| What the document is called | CV · Résumé · Lebenslauf · Rirekisho · Currículo |
| Page size | A4 · Letter |
| Expected length | one page · two pages |
| Photo norm | included · omitted |
| Personal fields | which details belong on the document (and which never should) |
| Date format | YYYY-MM-DD · DD/MM/YYYY · MM/DD/YYYY |
| Privacy / GDPR clauses | the data-consent line a market expects, where one applies |
When you run /apply, it applies the target
market's locale pack — which is why the CV's language and page count follow
the locale rather than being fixed.
The one rule to remember
Language is not locale. The language is how you read; the locale pack is how your CV is expected to look where you're applying. Set them to match your situation, not each other.
Next: /apply to see locale packs in action, or
the Quick Start if you haven't built a profile yet.