[Interest] get english translation

[Rainer Wiesenfarth]

From: Graham Labdon
> My application is internationalized, however, in some circumstances I need
> the English version of the string no matter what translator is being used.
> Anyone have any suggestions on how to achieve this?

One approach might be to subclass QTranslator and overwrite translate()
(snippet is untested!):

class MyTranslator : public QTranslator
{
public:
    MyTranslator (QObject *parent = 0)
        : QTranslator (parent)
        , m_translation (true)
    { }

    bool translation () const
    { return m_translation; }

    void setTranslation (bool translation)
    { m_translation = translation; }

    virtual QString translate (const char *context
        , const char *sourceText
        , const char *disambiguation = 0) const
    {
        return m_translation
            ? QTranslator::translate (context, sourceText, disambiguation)
            : QString (sourceText);
    }

private:
    bool m_translation;
};

However, setting or clearing the m_translation flag affects _all_ strings
that are passed through the translator, which might be not what you need. Of
course, more sophisitcated solutions may use the parameters given to
translate to decide what should be done...

Best Regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Rainer Wiesenfarth

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