.TH lrelease 1 "18 October 2001" "Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies)" \" -*- nroff -*-+
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.\" $QT_END_LICENSE$+
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.SH NAME+
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lrelease \- generate Qt message files from Qt Linguist translation files+
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.SH SYNOPSIS+
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.B lrelease+
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.RI "[ " options " ] " project-file+
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.br+
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.B lrelease+
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.RI "[ " options " ] " ts-files " [ -qm " qm-file " ]"+
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.SH DESCRIPTION+
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This page documents the+
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.B Qt Linguist Release+
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tool for the Qt GUI toolkit.+
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.B Lrelease+
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reads a qmake/tmake project file (.pro file) and converts the+
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translation files (TS files) specified in it into Qt message files+
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(QM files) used by the application to translate.+
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.PP+
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The QM file format is a compact binary format that provides+
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extremely fast lookups for translations and that is used by Qt.+
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.SH OPTIONS+
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.TP+
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.I "-help"+
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Display the usage and exit.+
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.TP+
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.I "-compress"+
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Compress the QM files.+
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.TP+
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.I "-nounfinished"+
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Do not include unfinished translations.+
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.TP+
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.I "-removeidentical"+
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If the translated text is the same as+
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the source text, do not include the message.+
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.TP+
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.I "-silent"+
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Do not explain what is being done.+
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.TP+
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.I "-version"+
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Display the version of+
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.B lrelease+
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and exit.+
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.SH USAGE+
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Here is an example .pro file that can be given to+
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.B lrelease:+
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.PP+
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.in +4+
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.nf+
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HEADERS         = funnydialog.h \\+
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                  wackywidget.h+
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SOURCES         = funnydialog.cpp \\+
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                  main.cpp \\+
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                  wackywidget.cpp+
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FORMS           = fancybox.ui+
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TRANSLATIONS    = gnomovision_dk.ts \\+
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                  gnomovision_fi.ts \\+
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                  gnomovision_no.ts \\+
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                  gnomovision_se.ts+
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.fi+
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.in -4+
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.PP+
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When running+
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.B lrelease+
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on this project file, the Qt message files gnomovision_dk.qm,+
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gnomovision_fi.qm, gnomovision_no.qm and gnomovision_se.qm will be+
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generated from gnomovision_dk.ts, gnomovision_fi.ts,+
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gnomovision_no.ts and gnomovision_se.ts, respectively.+
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.PP+
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.B Lrelease+
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can also be invoked with a list of TS files to convert:+
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.PP+
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.in +4+
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.nf+
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lrelease gnomovision_*.ts+
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.fi+
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.in -4+
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.SH "SEE ALSO"+
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.BR lupdate (1)+
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and+
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.BR http://qt.nokia.com/doc/i18n.html+
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