Create Qt translation files
Design applications so that they can be adapted to various languages and regions without engineering changes. Mark UI text as translatable to create Qt translation source (TS) files that contain them, and start Qt Linguist to translate the strings.
To add a new translation file to the project:
- Go to Project > Add New Item > Installed > Visual C++ > Qt > Qt Translation File.
- In Select a Language, select a language from the list of supported languages. Use Search to filter for a specific language.
- In Save as, enter a filename for the translation file.
- Go to Finish to create the file and have it listed in Translation Files in Visual Studio's Solution Explorer.
- Right-click the translation file to open a context menu, and go to
lupdate. It finds translatable strings in source, header, and UI files and generates or updates TS files.
After translating the UI text, go to lrelease in the context menu to create QM files out of TS files. The QM file format is a compact binary format that the localized application uses to look up translations.
See also Start Qt Linguist, Update Qt translation files, Internationalization with Qt, and Qt Linguist Manual.
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