Hi, On Thursday 16 January 2014, Ramakanthreddy Kesireddy wrote: > Am using Qt4.8.5 on embedded linux with widget based application. > I would like to know if I need to add support for different languages, do > I need to maintain different ts files or only English ts file in my > source code.
It depends. You usually embed the English text directly in your program, so you do not need any ts file for English (unless you decide later on that you want to support another dialect of English). Note: you could chose another language for direct embedding in your program, but English is usually understood by more people (read: by more programmers and translators) than any other language (except Chinese perhaps). The ts files exist so you can translate the English text into another language. You maintain one ts file for each language that you want to support. The ts files (XML) in turn are compiled into binary qs files that you deliver with your program. The qs files are smaller and more efficient. > Is there any tool that does the translation into different languages and > generate ts files? You use several tools from Qt: lupdate: scans your source files and finds the embedded text, moves it into the ts files (updating them with fresh text, but keeping all the old text). linguist: a GUI that you use to do the translation work. It is not an automatic translator - unfortunately we are not there yet: computers have a horrible understanding of human language. So you have to do the translation work yourself - or better: get some colleagues who are "better with languages" to do the work for you (they do not need to be programmers). lrelease: compiles the completed ts files into qs files. > Please let me know the localization procedure in Qt4.8.5 There are some nice tutorials for translating: http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/linguist-manual.html Get yourself a big cup of coffee (or tea), lean back, read through it - it'll probably answer more questions than you knew you should have... ;-) Konrad
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