[opensuse-buildservice] openSUSE and QT locale againt gettext
Hello, to make it a bit more user freindly I want to translate merkaartor (in Application:Geo). This is a QT4 software with tr()'s everywhere in the source, but no localisation done yet. Now my questions is - how to do that for linux? QT uses the linguist and it's own fileformat, whereas under linux gettext is used. Is there a style guide or a generic approach for QT localization under Linux? I know KDE uses gettext as well, but never looked into the details. I also did not find something helpful when using Google. Any tips? Ciao -- http://www.dstoecker.eu/ (PGP key available) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org
Hi, В Сбт, 29/03/2008 в 13:58 +0100, Dirk Stoecker пишет:
Hello,
to make it a bit more user freindly I want to translate merkaartor (in Application:Geo). This is a QT4 software with tr()'s everywhere in the source, but no localisation done yet.
Now my questions is - how to do that for linux? QT uses the linguist and it's own fileformat, whereas under linux gettext is used. Is there a style guide or a generic approach for QT localization under Linux? I know KDE uses gettext as well, but never looked into the details. I also did not find something helpful when using Google. Any tips?
There is a pretty good general explanation in the official Qt documentation: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/i18n.html If you have any exact questions, feel free to ask. -- Regards, Nikolay Derkach
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On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Nikolay Derkach wrote:
to make it a bit more user freindly I want to translate merkaartor (in Application:Geo). This is a QT4 software with tr()'s everywhere in the source, but no localisation done yet.
Now my questions is - how to do that for linux? QT uses the linguist and it's own fileformat, whereas under linux gettext is used. Is there a style guide or a generic approach for QT localization under Linux? I know KDE uses gettext as well, but never looked into the details. I also did not find something helpful when using Google. Any tips?
There is a pretty good general explanation in the official Qt documentation: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/i18n.html
This answer how to translate Qt. That was not the question. The question is "How to translate Qt in the context of Linux, which is using a different system called gettext". This are two totally different things. Topics here are: - Is there a way to use gettext instead of Qt internal format - In case Qt internal is recommended, where are the Qt-files to be stored - How is the packaging done and lots of stuff like that.
If you have any exact questions, feel free to ask.
I already did. Reread my text. Ciao -- http://www.dstoecker.eu/ (PGP key available) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org
В Сбт, 29/03/2008 в 16:32 +0100, Dirk Stoecker пишет:
On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Nikolay Derkach wrote:
to make it a bit more user freindly I want to translate merkaartor (in Application:Geo). This is a QT4 software with tr()'s everywhere in the source, but no localisation done yet.
Now my questions is - how to do that for linux? QT uses the linguist and it's own fileformat, whereas under linux gettext is used. Is there a style guide or a generic approach for QT localization under Linux? I know KDE uses gettext as well, but never looked into the details. I also did not find something helpful when using Google. Any tips?
There is a pretty good general explanation in the official Qt documentation: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/i18n.html
This answer how to translate Qt. That was not the question. The question is "How to translate Qt in the context of Linux, which is using a different system called gettext". This are two totally different things.
Translation system are something that depends on the project. You can't say "all Linux applications use gettext" or something.
Topics here are: - Is there a way to use gettext instead of Qt internal format
Yes, it's possible in theory (again, if a project is designed to use gettext), but I haven't seen a single Qt app using gettext.
- In case Qt internal is recommended, where are the Qt-files to be stored
There is always a directory for translations which contains two files for each language (ts - translation source and qm - Qt messages). Ts are produced with lupdate, while binary qm files are made with linguist.
- How is the packaging done and lots of stuff like that.
If an application doesn't use translations complied into a binary, then you should add .qm files to your package. I hope it helps. PS: I've looked into merkaartor and it uses Qt translation system, this means you should follow the Qt documentation I pointed above to localise this application. -- Regards, Nikolay Derkach
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