WinMerge allows translating the user interface to other languages than English. Several translations have been contributed. Translations are available for the following languages:
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Chinese (both Simplified and Traditional)
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Portuguese (Brazilian)
- Romanian
- Russian
- Slovak
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
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The translations cover interface content, including menus, dialogs, tooltips, and messages -- essentially the translation of all the strings displayed. However, they do not provide areas outside of string translation; they do not handle how numbers are divided, or how words are alphabetized. (These issues should be addressed in the conventional Windows manner, which is via the Regional settings in the Control Panel.) |
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In order to change the current user interface language, do the following:
- Run WinMerge
- Select from the menu
- Select your language and click
Note that the WinMerge user interface instantly updates to the selected language.
The easiest way to install translations is to select them in the installer. Translations are selected in the 4th installer dialog (Select components). The default install (Typical Installation) does not install translations, but they can be individually selected from the list.
If you do not want to re-run installer, or did not install WinMerge with the installer in the first place, then the WinMerge translation files are available in the zipped versions. To install a new translation file:
- Download the zipped release from WinMerge download site.
- If the Languages subfolder does not exist under the WinMerge directory (where WinMerge.exe and/or WinMergeU.exe is located) create it.
- Search for *.po files, where * is a language name (Swedish.po for Swedish translation) in the archive file. Extract that file to the Languages subfolder.
- Run WinMerge
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Select from the menu
- Select your language and click
Please submit errors you find in translations as bugs to our bug-list. It would be great if you can provide a corrected version of the translated text also.
If you would like to add your language to the list, look at the on-line documentation for the details on how to do it. All translations are not complete so it would be nice if you can help improving them. Translating (or improving translation) does not require you to have all compile tools or knowledge of WinMerge internals. Just read instructions from above link. And if you have problems ask help from us in one of WinMerge forums.