# Internationalize B, I and A in the message composer toolbar
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/internationalize-b-i-and-a-in-the-message-composer-toolbar/48369
**Category:** Translations
**Created:** [8 באוגוסט, 2016, 6:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/internationalize-b-i-and-a-in-the-message-composer-toolbar/48369 "2016-08-08T18:46:21Z")
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### Author:  [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [8 באוגוסט, 2016, 6:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/internationalize-b-i-and-a-in-the-message-composer-toolbar/48369/1 "2016-08-08T18:46:21Z")
Gotcha - I just realized that in Russian version of Microsoft Word, **`B`** (_bold_) actually says **`Ж`** (_жирный_ - in Russian). That’s probably another small thing that would improve on usability of the message composer.
Can this and other letters in the toolbar be made translatable?
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [8 באוגוסט, 2016, 6:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/internationalize-b-i-and-a-in-the-message-composer-toolbar/48369/2 "2016-08-08T18:50:54Z")
Very interesting. Unfortunately that’s not going to be easy to translate as the buttons are icons from [font awesome](http://fontawesome.io/icons/). The bold one for example is `fa-bold` which is a **B**.
With some coding we could add support for changing the icon in other languages, but I doubt font awesome has one for the Russian character you listed. I suppose we’d have to add the ability to replace an icon with just a letter (if it’s in the translation file.)
I’d accept a PR if anyone feels up to this!
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### Author:  [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [8 באוגוסט, 2016, 6:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/internationalize-b-i-and-a-in-the-message-composer-toolbar/48369/3 "2016-08-08T18:53:48Z")
Thanks for your feedback.
This feature would be greatly appreciated!
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [13 באוגוסט, 2016, 12:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/internationalize-b-i-and-a-in-the-message-composer-toolbar/48369/4 "2016-08-13T00:15:00Z")
Here’s my attempt of fixing this issue:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4389](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4389)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [15 במאי, 2025, 12:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/internationalize-b-i-and-a-in-the-message-composer-toolbar/48369/5 "2025-05-15T00:21:30Z")
fixed already.