[Development] Qt Linguist should tell how many strings are in a file

[Kai Koehne]

> -----Original Message-----
> [...]
> It was unfortunately a combination of lokalise.co and my scripts. The
> owner/opertator/developer of lokalise was very helpful in adjusting his service
> which apparently supported Qt 3 to Qt4's format. He complained about issues
> with the XML, which I later also experienced when writing my merge scripts.
> We used lokalize to get the translations from the translators and all that entails
> (user management, scope, etc)

Would be good to know exactly what the issues are.

> I would expect that Qt would adopt/focus on GNU gettext/PO files in the
> future?

Well, you can use gettext already right now, for your own translations.

Anyhow, I doubt that we can change the existing tooling in Qt to gettext without breaking user code. And given our focus on compatibility, I don't see this happen any time soon.

Regards

Kai