Eclipse Babel Project Downloads

The Babel Project is in incubation and has not yet produced full translations for Eclipse Ganymede and Europa. All downloads are provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Foundation Software User Agreement unless otherwise specified.

The Babel project produces weekly language packs from the translations entered using the Translation Tool. You can use the Babel Language Pack Update Sites to download the languages packs, or download the Babel Language Pack Zips from the following link.

Babel Language Packs - built on June 22, 2009

Babel Language Pack Zips
Galileo | Ganymede | Europa
Installation instructions

Babel Update Sites - built on June 22, 2009

Babel Language Pack Update Site for Galileo
http://download.eclipse.org/technology/babel/update-site/galileo

Includes Eclipse SDK 3.5, BIRT 2.5, Datatools 1.7, etc  [Request more projects]

Babel Language Pack Update Site for Ganymede
http://download.eclipse.org/technology/babel/update-site/ganymede

Includes Eclipse SDK 3.4, CDT 5.0, Webtools 3.0, etc  [Request more projects]

Babel Language Pack Update Site for Europa
http://download.eclipse.org/technology/babel/update-site/europa

Includes Eclipse SDK 3.3, BIRT 2.3, etc  [Request more projects]

Before you download and use any of the language packs, please read these known issues:

  1. Not all of the existing Eclipse Foundation Projects are included in Babel yet. If you encounter a project that you would like to help translate, tell that project's leaders.
  2. Not all languages are included in Babel yet. Request an additional language through Bugzilla.


Using the language packs

If the system locale for your operating system is already in the language you want to launch Eclipse in, all you have to do is to launch Eclipse normally and the language packs will be loaded.

If the system locale is in English, and you want to launch Eclipse in another language, you have to launch Eclipse with the -nl command line argument:

eclipse.exe -nl fr

Replace fr with the locale you wish to use. See "Running Eclipse" for more details. Also see the "Teach Your Eclipse to Speak the Local Lingo" Eclipse Corner Article for more examples on how to launch Eclipse in different languages (including bi-directional language like Arabic) and different operating systems (like Linux and Mac OS X).


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