Last Update: September, 2008

Internationalization

This page is intended for people who volunteer to translate the user interface of QCAD or its user reference manual into languages other than English or German.

Translating the User Interface

Qt Linguist

Qt comes with a program called "Linguist". This tool makes translation of the interface into any language very easy (provided that you speak that language and understand English).

For more information, please have a look at:
Screenshot of Qt Linguist
TrollTech's manual of the Qt translation process

Linguist comes with the developer edition of Qt for Unix systems. If you like to translate on Windows, please contact me.

Translation Sources

Translation sources for the QCAD user interface. Version: 2.1.0.0 RC3

Before you start working, rename the files according to your language. E.g. for German you would rename them from *_en.ts into *_de.ts. A complete list of two-letter codes for languages is available from here (ISO 639-1). These ts files can be loaded and translated with Qt Linguist.

Translation hints

Some texts contain an ampersand (&). This marks the letter which can be used to quickly access that particular menu or other GUI element. E.g. &File means that Alt-F can be used to access the File menu. It might be translated to "&Datei" in German.

Translating the Manual

Work in progress...