Support Chinese (zh-CN) localization for UI strings like "thinking"

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Activity 2 comments · opened Jun 24, 2026

When language is set to "zh-CN" in settings.json, the UI still displays English strings such as "thinking" and "thinking for Xs".

Expected behavior: These UI strings should be localized to Chinese, e.g. "思考中" / "思考了 X 秒".

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Set "language": "zh-CN" in ~/.claude/settings.json
  2. Observe that "thinking" status text remains in English

It would be great to have localized UI strings for at least zh-CN and other major languages.

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