Localization and Translations

For now, VNote only supports English and Simplified Chinese as interface's language. A Japanese translation is provided by VNote's users. It is highly appreciated to help us translate VNote to other languages.

To provide translations for VNote, you only need to download VNote's source code and get Qt installed. You do not need the environment to build VNote. What we need at last for a new locale are just two files: *.ts and *.qm.

Tools from Qt

After installing Qt, there are two tools we need in path_to_Qt/bin folder: lupdate and linguist.

Add ts file

Given that we want to provide a Traditional Chinese translation for VNote. The locale code should be zh_HK. First we add one empty plain text file src/data/core/translations/vnote_zh_HK.ts under VNote's source code.

Then add it to src/src.pro file:

TRANSLATIONS += data/core/translations/vnote_zh_CN.ts \
                data/core/translations/vnote_ja.ts \
                data/core/translations/vnote_zh_HK.ts

Update ts file

Now we need to update vnote_zh_HK.ts according to latest source code via lupdate tool.

Execute lupdate update VNote's source code root folder:

lupdate src/src.pro

It will fill in vnote_zh_HK.ts with latest strings needed to translate.

Fill in ts file with translations

linguist src/data/core/translations/vnote_zh_HK.ts

This will open Linguist tool for us to do the translation one by one.

After doing all the translations, select Save and Release in the File menu of Linguist. The vnote_zh_HK.qm file should now be generated alongside with the ts file.

Submit files

Now you could submit those two files to the author. The author will integrate them in next release of VNote.

Update after changes

You need to update the ts and qm file if there are changes in source code via lupdate and linguist.

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