Rainmeter localization
Rainmeter supports displaying many items of its user interface in the local language selected by the user. These items include: the Rainmeter installer, the Manage interface, the About interface, the New Skin interface, various skin and application context menus, and various message boxes produced by the application. In order for these translations to be complete and correct, we need some help from you, the Rainmeter community.
How do you help?
This will require that you have or create an account on The Rainmeter Forums.
- Check the status of the language you want to translate
- Languages that are up to date, will be marked
Complete
and have a green background. - Languages that are outdated, will be marked
Incomplete
and have a red background. Discontinued
languages are severly out of date and will have a grey background. These languages will not be included with Rainmeter until they are 100% complete.
- Languages that are up to date, will be marked
- Click on the row of language to go to the forum thread for that specific language
- Download and edit the language
.h
and.nsh
files1- In the first post of the language thread, right-click and "Save as" to download both the
.h
and.nsh
files for the language. Save them to some local folder on your PC. - Open the files in any text editor, and add missing string translations or make any corrections. Save the files.
- In the first post of the language thread, right-click and "Save as" to download both the
- Post your updated
.h
and.nsh
files on the forums
Click the "Reply" button to create a new post in that language thread. Use the[code][/code]
tags to paste the entire contents of both the.h
and.nsh
files you corrected2.
1 If you are a Github user, you can also create a Pull Request as an alternative.
2 If you are only translating a few items, just post the newly translated items instead of the entire contents of the .h and .nsh files.
That's all there is to it. The development team will incorporate your changes, and they will be available for use in the next beta or release version of Rainmeter. This is a great help for the Rainmeter project and your fellow users in the Rainmeter community, and your effort is greatly appreciated!
Status:
Language | Lang ID | Status |
---|---|---|
Arabic | 1025 | Complete |
Bulgarian | 1026 | Incomplete |
Chinese (Simplified) | 2052 | Complete |
Chinese (Traditional) | 1028 | Complete |
Croatian | 1050 | Discontinued |
Czech | 1029 | Incomplete |
Danish | 1030 | Complete |
Dutch | 1043 | Incomplete |
English | 1033 | Complete |
Estonian | 1061 | Complete |
Finnish | 1035 | Complete |
French | 1036 | Complete |
German | 1031 | Complete |
Greek | 1032 | Incomplete |
Hebrew | 1037 | Incomplete |
Hungarian | 1038 | Incomplete |
Indonesian | 1057 | Complete |
Italian | 1040 | Complete |
Japanese | 1041 | Complete |
Korean | 1042 | Complete |
Latvian | 1062 | Discontinued |
Lithuanian | 1063 | Discontinued |
Malay | 1086 | Incomplete |
Norwegian (Bokmal) | 1044 | Incomplete |
Polish | 1045 | Complete |
Portuguese (Brazil) | 1046 | Complete |
Portuguese (Portugal) | 2070 | Complete |
Romanian | 1048 | Complete |
Russian | 1049 | Complete |
Serbian (Cyrillic) | 3098 | Incomplete |
Serbian (Latin) | 2074 | Incomplete |
Slovak | 1051 | Complete |
Slovenian | 1060 | Incomplete |
Spanish (Modern) | 3082 | Complete |
Swedish | 1053 | Complete |
Thai | 1054 | Complete |
Turkish | 1055 | Complete |
Ukrainian | 1058 | Complete |
Vietnamese | 1066 | Complete |
An alternative for GitHub users
If you have an account on GitHub.com, and are reasonably familiar with the concepts of git repositories and the GitHub web interface, you can save some time and trouble for both yourself and the development team.
- Create a fork of the Rainmeter Repository on GitHub.
- Make any changes to the .h and .nsh files for the language you are interested in.
- Commit these changes to your fork.
- Create a pull request in the Rainmeter repository.