Hey Stefan,
the ts file without language code extension is like a template file for
further languages. That is the reason why it is not compiled into a qm file.
It would only contain strings that already exist in your source code. So if
you use qsTr with English as source language there is no need to translate
this into english again.
English translations are needed if you want to have plural forms displayed
correctly, but then there only the plurals have to be translated.
It would be different if you use qsTrId, because then there is no real source
string inside the code. So in that case you would also need english
translation files. But ts files without lang code would still be templates.
lupdate is, as you aspected, used for extracting translatable strings form the
source code.
lrelease compiles ts text files into binary qm files that are used by
QTranslator. [0]
If you want to have your app translated you need to install a translator as
described in [0].
Best greetings
Buschmann
[0] http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtranslator.html
Am Freitag, 20. März 2015, 13:18:51 schrieb s...@bredband.net:
> Hi
>
> I created a new project, myapp, wich contain the following
> "translations" files
>
> harbour-myapp-de.ts
>
> About
>
>
> About
>
> harbour-myapp.ts
>
> About
>
> About
>
> About.qml pages looks like this
>
>
> Page {
> ..
> ..
>
> title: qsTr("About")
> }
>
> When I compile the
> project Qt have only "built" the de file, in
> ../build-harbour-myApp-MerSDK_SailfishOS_i486-Debug/translations/
>
>
> harbour-lapis-de.qm
> harbour-lapis-de.ts
>
> Should it not have built
> the other one as well, that is harbour-myapp.ts ?
>
> If I change the file
> harbour-myapp.ts (which i assume is the default one) into
>
>
> harbour-myapp.ts
>
> About
>
> About
> HELLO THERE
>
> Nothing happens on the
> screen, title: qsTr("About"), still writes "About" and not "HELLO THERE"
> as expected.
>
> According to Qt homepage there are some tools, lupdate
> and lrelease mention but they are not installed in the Qt
> distribution
> and entering those at the command prompt gives error
> message.
> However lupdate/lrelease seems to be used for backward
> engineering text, lupdate extracts from the source code texts
> and
> create the .ts files, which is only useful when trying to
> internationalise an finished application.
>
> Is not qsTr using it's
> argument to look up in the .ts (.qm) files what text it should use in
> runtime?
>
> /Stefan
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