Chinese Localization

The objective of Chinese Localization is to convert a software application which is primarily in English into Chinese or some other languages.

Steps to Follow

• Install Chinese fonts onto your machine. Make sure you have Simsun Font on your machine. You can find this font in the C:\WINNT\Fonts directory.
• Type the word that you need to localize in Chinese in notepad and save it.
• Convert the word into GB18030 format.This is done by using the following command:

 native2ascii -encoding GB18030 inputfilepath outputfilepath

• • The inputfilepath is the Chinese text file that you saved earlier.
  • The outputfilepath is the text that you get in GB18030 format. For example the file contains text as \U5645 \U1423.
• You can run this command in the path where you have installed JDK. for Example c:\jdk1.3\bin
• Place the converted words(in GB18030 format) in property files where the appliation refers to display the contents in the application.
• Change the display font that your application use to Simsun.

Other Localization

• Follow the above steps and only change is the format you use.