As of Programmer's Notepad 2.1 (now in testing), you can translate PN into your own language. The translations use the standard PO format files, which can be edited by a wide variety of tools. We recommend using Poedit.

1. Download the current language translation kit: PN Translation Kit
2. Create a new catalog (.po file) from the English template file, translations\pnlang_2057_en-GB.pot (in Poedit go to File → New Catalog from POT file…)
3. Fill in all the translations, ignoring any starting with “ID:”
4. Save the catalog and upload it to the Issue Tracker as a new issue

When saving your translation, it should be saved with a name conforming to this format:

pnlang_<lcid>_<langcode>.po

The lcid is the decimal language code ID for your language, and langcode is the short ISO representation for the language. Good tables to find these are here: Locale ID Chart on MSDN, LCID Structure

The language will be made available with the next PN release, but will need updating for each new release. Testing releases will not be delayed for language updates, but Stable releases may be.

This allows you to test your translation with Programmer's Notepad.

1. Run this command:

   tools\ResText\ResText apply bin\pnlang.dll bin\pnlang_<language details>_<version>.dll translations\<your translation>.po

2. Copy the new DLL file to your Programmer's Notepad directory and then start PN.
3. In options select your language and restart

The template file is updated for each translation tools release, but if you wish to do this yourself you'll need to run this command from the translation tools directory:

tools\ResText\ResText extract bin\pnlang.dll translations\pnlang_2057_en-GB.pot

For this to work you'll need the msgmerge tool, I use the one bundled with the PoEdit tool. Here are the steps:

1. Run this:

   msgmerge -o temp.po translations\<your translation>.po translations\pnlang_2057_en-GB.pot

2. Copy temp.po over your original translation file if you're happy with the result