Translation

How to contribute translations to FreeMind follows.

Step-by-step overview

1. Get the latest English translation.
2. Get the latest translation for your language.
3. Find what is missing.
4. Complete what is missing.
5. Convert to Java unicode notation of needed.
6. Post to Translations tracker.

Detail

Look for a translation into your language present in the development branch. If such a translation isn't present, take the latest revision of Resources_en.properties. Translate the labels in the text at the right side from = to your language.

You can directly create and edit any java property file in any language using propedit.

This editor can directly edit property files written in Unicode reference characters, and saves the time and effort of converting into Unicode through native2ascii. In addition to the usual functions of an editor, the plugin is integrated with Eclipse and JBuilder. Files can be opened in the IDE and saved in Unicode. It can use by intuitive and simple operation. For details, see Propedit.

Another interesting tool to manage language property files is popeye. Popeye can deal with several language property files at the same time so you can contrast the original property file data with their translations. Also, the program can highlight all properties that do not have a translation set in one of the selected languages.

Alternatively you can save your property file in UTF-8 encoding; this is possible e.g. using Microsoft Notepad. After that convert the file into \uXXXX Unicode escape notation, using native2ascii tool included with the Java SDK. Example of use (Resources_cs.properties.txt is before conversion):

cd C:\j2sdk1.4.2\bin>
native2ascii.exe -encoding UTF8 Resources_cs.properties.utf8.txt Resources_cs.properties

Ideally, your file's name will be Resources_xx.properties, where xx is the code of the language (e.g. en, de, dk etc.).

Send your translation to Translations tracker afterwards.

To convert \uXXXX Unicode encoded file back to UTF-8, use a command similar to the following.

cd C:\j2sdk1.4.2\bin>
native2ascii.exe -reverse -encoding UTF8 Resources_cs.properties Resources_cs.properties.utf8.txt

State of translation

Currently, we have the following languages translated.

Already Translated Languages
Language	Language	Short	If released	Translator	Reviewer	Capitalized Titles
Czech	Česky	cs	not released	Radek Švarz	Daniel Polansky	No
Chinese	trad.chinese	zh	released	william chen
Chinese	simp.chinese	zh_CN	not released	william chen
Danish	Dansk	dk	released
Dutch	Nederlands	nl	released	Koen Roggemans		No
English	English	en	released	N/A		Yes
Finnish	Suomi	fi	not released	Matti Lassila
French	Francais	fr	released
German	Deutsch	de	released	Christian Foltin
Hungarian		?	not released	documan
Italian	Italiano	it	released	Bob Alexander
Japanese	Nihongo	ja	released	Kohichi Aoki
Korean	Hangeul	kr	released(rc5)	Kim Jong Woo
Polish	Polski	pl	not released	Rafal Kraik		No
Portuguese	Português	pt	not released	Luis Ferreira
Brazilian Portuguese	Português brasileiro	pt_BR	not released	Rodrigo Rizzi Starr
Russian	Pусский	ru	not released	Prokudin Alexander
Slovenian		sl	released	Martin Srebotnjak - filmsi		No?
Spanish	Espanol	es	released	Hugo Gayosso		Yes
Turkish	Türkçe	tr	not released	Uğur Çetin		Yes

To activate a new translation, follow the following steps:

• write or download the Resources_xx.properties file;
• unpack the freemind.jar file with 7-Zip or similar into a temp folder;
• replace or add the Resources_xx.properties with the new one;
• repack the freemind.jar with the modified content of the temp folder.