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NetBeans Localization and Translation Projects

This is the place to find out about all the projects related to translating NetBeans IDE, netbeans.org web content, newsletters, or NetBeans product information.

Translating Website Content Localising the NetBeans IDE Translating and Publishing Newsletters General Advice

Translating Website Content

Getting important web content translated into different languages is a high priority for the project. The docs and web teams have put together a kit of pages which are suitable for translation. The kit includes some of the product and feature info pages, for people new to NetBeans, as well as tutorial and documentation sets. Anyone is free - and very welcome! - to pick a page from the kit and translate it. Any contribution, even a single page, is a great help!

How to get started

Check the status page to see what has been done, what needs updating, and what hasn't been started. Pick a page you'd like to work on. Post a note , so others know you are working on that page, just in case someone else is too! The links in the table cells on the status page take you to the page you need. Notice that the linked pages are on testwww.netbeans.org, not www.netbeans.org. testwww is where the content is hosted, and does not include all the wrapped headers, navigation, footers and so on that you see on www. Making sure you're on the testwww.netbeans.org page, choose View -> Source in your browser. Copy-paste the whole source to a local file. Please do not use File -> Save As, this will alter links and image references in the html. Start translating! Please use UTF-8 encoding where possible. If you don't know what that means, or how to do it, don't worry! Send in whatever you can, and we'll work it out on this end. Send your translated html as an email attachment to webmaster at netbeans dot org. Don't forget to tell us exactly which page you have translated. Thanks!

If you'd like to get more involved, or plan to translate more than a single page, you might like to get in touch with other community members working on translations into your language. Check the list of localisation teams, subscribe and send a note to your language's list.

Localising the NetBeans IDE

Join the community-driven effort to translate the IDE into your native language. The TranslatedFiles project is where it all happens. To get started:

Check out the docs and HOWTOs on the translatedfiles website, get a feel for what's involved and what's required. mailing list and post an introductory message stating what language you'd like to help with. There may be other users already working on localisation into that language, so use the list to co-ordinate your efforts.

Translating and Publishing Newsletters

Every week a newsletter is published on the site, and distributed via email to subscribers. You can localise the content of that English newsletter and add your own stories to create a version in your language. That version will be published on the netbeans.org site, and distributed via email to your language mailing list (see the existing language mailing lists). If you're interested in doing this, please see the How To Publish the NetBeans Weekly Newsletter in Your Language wiki guide.