How to add Translate plugin in NotePad++?
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I’m using Notepad++ SING 2020 and it’s a really amazing software for all types of tasks. I need help with translation because my work needs to be around global clients and projects.
I want to know if Notepad++ supports multilingual language. It will be very helpful for me.
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I’m using Notepad++ SING 2020 and it’s a really amazing software for all types of tasks.
Never heard of that. Is “SING 2020” a plugin for Notepad++, or something else? What does it have to do with Notepad++?
I need help with translation because my work needs to be around global clients and projects.
There used to be a plugin called the “Translate Plugin” for Notepad++, which helped for translating the text in your document to a different language; it’s not supported by its developer anymore, though someone made a fork of it at https://github.com/databird/npptranslate64/releases – I don’t know if @databird is going to continue to support that fork or not, but that’s got a reasonable chance of being installable and being able to help you with your translation. (This discussion explains some of the difficulties with the original version, and mentions the new 64-bit release.)
I want to know if Notepad++ supports multilingual language. It will be very helpful for me.
Notepad++ “supports” multiple languages, in that the core application doesn’t care what language the text is written in, as long as you are using an encoding that supports all the characters you need – and if you’re using UTF-8 or UTF-16, then the encoding supports all Unicode codepoints, so that should be sufficient. :-)
And Notepad++ “supports” multiple languages, in that you can use the Settings > Preferences > General > Localization feature to change what language is used for the GUI (menu names, etc). Though you can have only one active Localization at a time.
But natively (ie, without plugins), Notepad++ does not have any facility to do translation of text. For that, you could use a plugin, like the npptranslate64 I linked to above. (There have also been some simple scripts written for the scripting plugins and shared in the forum at various times, but they are for simple lists of fixed input-phrase-to-output-phrase mapping, and should not be considered general-purpose translators.)
