[Development] [Interest] Direct-lookup translation, even for English (was Re: get english translation)

[Saether Jan-Arve]

> feature.
> A quick search for %n in the Qt .ts files would reveal that. I don't
> have them here, or I would take a peek.
> But even so: Qt could pre-load the Qt .qm file by default from an
> internal resource, and I guess that makes sense. There is no need for
> a special tr() version to do that.
> 
I would hardly say that Qt uses this feature:

Q:\dev\qt-5.3\qttranslations\translations [5.3]> grep "numerus=.yes." *_de.ts | uniq -c
     11 designer_de.ts:    <message numerus="yes">
      8 linguist_de.ts:    <message numerus="yes">
      1 qt_help_de.ts:    <message numerus="yes">
      2 qtxmlpatterns_de.ts:    <message numerus="yes">
Q:\dev\qt-5.3\qttranslations\translations [5.3]>

So, it's will only affect applications due to QtHelp and QtXmlPatterns. These are the messages:

      qt_help_de.ts:        <source>%1 - %2 of %n Hits</source>
      qtxmlpatterns_de.ts:        <source>%1 takes at most %n argument(s). %2 is therefore invalid.</source>
      qtxmlpatterns_de.ts:        <source>%1 requires at least %n argument(s). %2 is therefore invalid.</source>


So, I think very few people are affected by this and I'm not sure fixing this is worth the effort.

If we simply provide qt_US.ts, and the user uses windeployqt it will automatically be deployed in the same way as other .qm files, and it will just work (tm).

Jan Arve