Qt .ts
The Qt toolkit uses a .ts file format to store translations which are
traditionally edited using Qt Linguist.
References
The format is XML and seems to only have been documented properly since Qt 4.3
Complete
Note that ts2po uses and older version and does not
support all of these features. Virtaal, Pootle and other users of the new ts class
support the following:
- Context
- Message: status (unfinished, finished, obsolete), source, translation,
location
- Notes: comment, extracomment, translatorcomment (last two since Toolkit
1.6.0)
- Plurals: numerusform
TODO
Note
A new parser has been added to the toolkit in v1.2. This allows
Virtaal, pocount and other users to
work with v1.1 of the .ts format. This corrects almost all of the issues
listed below. The converter ts2po continues to use
the older storage class and thus continue to experience some of these
problems.
- Compliance with above DTD
- byte: within various text areas
- translation: obsolete (currently handled with comments in conversion to PO.
But should be able to convert Obsolete PO back into obsolete TS. This might
mean moving this format properly onto the base class).
- lengthvariants
- *comment: various new comment fields
- old*: ability to store previous source and comments
Validate
These might work but need validation
- Encoding handling for non-UTF-8 file encodings