1lrelease(1) General Commands Manual lrelease(1)
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6 lrelease - generate Qt message files from Qt Linguist translation files
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9 lrelease [ options ] project-file
10 lrelease [ options ] ts-files [ -qm qm-file ]
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13 This page documents the Qt Linguist Release tool for the Qt GUI tool‐
14 kit. Lrelease reads a qmake/tmake project file (.pro file) and con‐
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18 The .qm file format is a compact binary format that provides extremely
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22 -help Display the usage and exit.
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34 Here is an example .pro file that can be given to lrelease:
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41 FORMS = fancybox.ui
42 TRANSLATIONS = gnomovision_dk.ts \
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47 When running lrelease on this project file, the Qt message files gnomo‐
48 vision_dk.qm, gnomovision_fi.qm, gnomovision_no.qm and gnomovi‐
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52 Lrelease can also be invoked with a list of .ts files to convert:
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57 lupdate(1) and http://doc.trolltech.com/i18n.html
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61Trolltech AS 18 October 2001 lrelease(1)