I have been using i18n.tr for a while in my Ubuntu-Touch projects. I know what this function is about but I don't know how to add a translation to my project.
Where do I have to place my translation file? With what name? How must its content be written? How should I connect it with my app? How do I test it with qmlscene ?
Take a look at TouchWriter code and especially its README, where all needed commands are given.
You need to bind the text domain before using gettext. In C++ you can do it like this:
bindtextdomain("domainname", "somedir");
textdomain("domainname");
In Qml you can probably do something like this:
i18n.bindtextdomain("domainname", "somedir");
i18n.domain = "domainname";
Be sure to do that before 18n.tr is used.
To generate .pot template and source .po files, use these commands:
xgettext -C --qt --keyword=tr -p somedir -o messages.pot
msginit -i somedir/messages.pot -o somedir/somelanguage.po
(replace somedir with the directory your domain is bound to, and somelanguage with the language you want to translate to).
To generate .mo files from source .po files, use msgfmt po-file -o mo-file command.
Compiled .mo files should be placed inside a directory you bound the text domain to, more specifically in
somedir/somelanguage/LC_MESSAGES/domainname.mo
(replace somedir, somelanguage and domainname with your values).
The best answer seems to be in the doc. http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/ubuntu-12.10/qml/mobile/qml-ubuntu-components0-i18n.html
It seems to be a function that translates the word passed to the user's language.
