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.SH NAME

lrelease \- generate Qt message files from Qt Linguist translation files

.SH SYNOPSIS

.B lrelease

.RI "[ " options " ] " project-file

.br

.B lrelease

.RI "[ " options " ] " ts-files " [ -qm " qm-file " ]"

.SH DESCRIPTION

This page documents the

.B Qt Linguist Release

tool for the Qt GUI toolkit.

.B Lrelease

reads a qmake/tmake project file (.pro file) and converts the

translation files (TS files) specified in it into Qt message files

(QM files) used by the application to translate.

.PP

The QM file format is a compact binary format that provides

extremely fast lookups for translations and that is used by Qt.

.SH OPTIONS

.TP

.I "-help"

Display the usage and exit.

.TP

.I "-compress"

Compress the QM files.

.TP

.I "-nounfinished"

Do not include unfinished translations.

.TP

.I "-removeidentical"

If the translated text is the same as

the source text, do not include the message.

.TP

.I "-silent"

Do not explain what is being done.

.TP

.I "-version"

Display the version of

.B lrelease

and exit.

.SH USAGE

Here is an example .pro file that can be given to

.B lrelease:

.PP

.in +4

.nf

HEADERS         = funnydialog.h \\

                  wackywidget.h

SOURCES         = funnydialog.cpp \\

                  main.cpp \\

                  wackywidget.cpp

FORMS           = fancybox.ui

TRANSLATIONS    = gnomovision_dk.ts \\

                  gnomovision_fi.ts \\

                  gnomovision_no.ts \\

                  gnomovision_se.ts

.fi

.in -4

.PP

When running

.B lrelease

on this project file, the Qt message files gnomovision_dk.qm,

gnomovision_fi.qm, gnomovision_no.qm and gnomovision_se.qm will be

generated from gnomovision_dk.ts, gnomovision_fi.ts,

gnomovision_no.ts and gnomovision_se.ts, respectively.

.PP

.B Lrelease

can also be invoked with a list of TS files to convert:

.PP

.in +4

.nf

lrelease gnomovision_*.ts

.fi

.in -4

.SH "SEE ALSO"

.BR lupdate (1)

and

.BR http://qt.nokia.com/doc/i18n.html