QtCS25 - State and Direction of Qt's i18n and l10n framework

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Session Summary

Session took place in the common area. The presentation was already done during the lightning talks.

Session Owners

Masoud Jami

Jörg Bornemann

Notes

Talked to Vladimir who could give some more insights why id-based translations are preferred by some customers:

  • translations can be re-used in completely separate parts of the project
  • developers might not be fluent in English, separation between source code and displayed text is important
  • id naming: some people create a tree-like hierarchy of objects and reflect them in string IDs

Linguist

  • not easily accessible for translators, since they have to install the whole Qt framework. The version available on the Qt's download page is very old.
  • provide a web based version using web assembly