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NAME

       lrelease - generate Qt message files from Qt Linguist translation files

SYNOPSIS

       lrelease [ options ] project-file
       lrelease [ options ] ts-files [ -qm qm-file ]

DESCRIPTION

       This  page  documents  the Qt Linguist Release tool for the Qt GUI toolkit.  Lrelease reads a qmake/tmake project file (.pro file) and con-
       verts the translation files (.ts files) specified in it into Qt message files (.qm files) used by the application to translate.

       The .qm file format is a compact binary format that provides extremely fast lookups for translations and that is used by Qt.

OPTIONS

       -help  Display the usage and exit.

       -nocompress
	      Do not compress the .qm files.

       -verbose
	      Explain what is being done.

       -version
	      Display the version of lrelease and exit.

USAGE

       Here is an example .pro file that can be given to lrelease:

	   HEADERS	   = funnydialog.h 
			     wackywidget.h
	   SOURCES	   = funnydialog.cpp 
			     main.cpp 
			     wackywidget.cpp
	   FORMS	   = fancybox.ui
	   TRANSLATIONS    = gnomovision_dk.ts 
			     gnomovision_fi.ts 
			     gnomovision_no.ts 
			     gnomovision_se.ts

       When running lrelease on this project file, the Qt message  files  gnomovision_dk.qm,  gnomovision_fi.qm,  gnomovision_no.qm  and  gnomovi-
       sion_se.qm will be generated from gnomovision_dk.ts, gnomovision_fi.ts, gnomovision_no.ts and gnomovision_se.ts, respectively.

       Lrelease can also be invoked with a list of .ts files to convert:

	   lrelease gnomovision_*.ts

SEE ALSO

       lupdate(1) and http://doc.trolltech.com/i18n.html

Trolltech AS							  18 October 2001						       lrelease(1)