it's to late for 10.3. =( But sure you can't delay GM internal for this minor "bugfix". I'm waiting for public rekease too.
only for better understanding: the .qm is "compiled" from the .ts, or not? Yep. Compressed might be the better word. Qt's lrelease via cmdline, or "release" menu entry in linguist .ts "editor". It's _not_ "linked" against any external info, so just drop in into any system is just fine (not tested for differing charsets and endian-ness). The make creates all the .qm files with lrelease *.ts, without test whether
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=327023#c6
--- Comment #6 from joerg reisenweber