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

[Knoll Lars]

On 05/09/14 21:55, "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:

>On Friday 05 September 2014 14:41:40 Saether Jan-Arve wrote:
>> 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).
>
>I insist that we choose one of two alternatives:
>
>1) provide, deploy inside Qt and automatically load the .qm file for
>English

No, I think we should automatically load the best matching translation. Of
course that can be (and often is) english.

Cheers,
Lars

>
>2) not require a .qm for *any* message in Qt
>
>Lars's email makes it clear he doesn't want a 2-form tr() overload. If we
>take 
>that as guidance, #2 means stripping any message containing plurals from
>the 
>Qt sources.
>
>-- 
>Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
>
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