[Qt-interest] Urgent: Query related to Internationalization feature

[Oliver.Knoll at comit.ch]

Hemalatha Venkataswamy wrote on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 3:28 PM:

> Hi,
>
> We would like to know if we can create internationalization required
> files like (.ts and .qm files) using QT evaluation version and
> incorporate with the product developed on licensed version.

I am not sure whether I understand your exact problem: why do you want to create the *.ts file with the evaluation (no commercial license) version of Qt?

> Internationalization is one of the requiremnt form our customer where
> we need to update the language through a configuration file(which
> would be configured with type of languages supported). Our customers
> preference is to add the language support later during their
> deployment, for which we need to generate .ts and .qm files.

So I understand you have the following scenario:

- You have a commercial Qt license with which you build the application
- In the very same development process (commercial license) you create
  the *.ts file
- You ship the application to your customers

Now I understand, at a later point, the customer wants to have another translation.

I remember to have read (but I am NOT sure, check with sales at trolltech.com! And IANAL!) somewhere that you DON'T need to have a commercial license for the application QtLinguist! If this assumption is true then you would ship the *.ts file together with the QtLinguist application to whoever is supposed to translate the *.ts file. This translator person (or the customer) does not need a commercial license. Once the translation is done you ship the resulting *.qm file to the customer.


Does that make any sense?

Cheers, Oliver
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Oliver Knoll
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