[Qt5-feedback] Translation in Qt5

[David Faure]

On Wednesday 29 June 2011, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
> 29.06.2011, 03:30, "John Layt" <jlayt at kde.org>:
> > * Qt Linguist is in "maintenace mode", no planned updates, other tools
> > are better
> 
> What tools?

The large number of tools based on gettext, I suppose. Like lokalize, poedit, 
gtranslator, and I presume there are commercial tools as well.

> > * In Qt5 should remove forced context from Qt to restore compatability
> > with all other translation systems.
> 
> Automatic context is a great feature of Qt translation systm, please don't
> remove it.

What is great about it? IIRC it's typically set to a C++ classname, and 
translators don't typically know these names at all.

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