Qt Phrase Book (.qph)¶
New in version 1.2.
Qt Linguist allows a translator to collect common phrases into a phrase book. This plays a role of glossary lookup as opposed to translation memory.
Conformance¶
There is no formal definition of the format, although it follows a simple structure
<!DOCTYPE QPH><QPH>
<phrase>
<source>Source</source>
<target>Target</target>
<definition>Optional definition</definition>
</phrase>
</QPH>
Missing features¶
There are no missing features in our support in the toolkit. The only slight difference are:
- We don’t focus on adding and removing items, just updating and reading
- Comments are not properly escaped on reading, they might be on writing
- An XML header is output on writing while it seems that no files in the wild contain an XML header.
- The
<definition>
is aimed at users, the toolkits addnote feature focuses on programmer, translators, etc comments while there is really only one source of comments in a .qph. This causes duplication on the offline editor.