.TH qm2ts 1 "18 October 2001" "Trolltech AS" \" -*- nroff -*-.\".\" Copyright 2001 Trolltech AS.  All rights reserved..\".\" This file is part of Qt and may be distributed and used according to.\" the terms and conditions described in the LICENSE file..\".SH NAMEqm2ts \- generate Qt Linguist translation files from Qt 2.x message files.SH SYNOPSIS.B qm2ts.RI "[ " options " ] " qm-files.SH DESCRIPTIONThis page documents the.B Qt Linguist Qm2tstool for the Qt GUI toolkit..B Qm2tsconverts Qt 2.x message files (.qm files) into source message files(.ts files)..PPThe .ts file format is a simple human-readable XML format that can beused with version control systems if required. It is understood by.B lupdate,.B lreleaseand.B Qt Linguist..PP.B qm2tsis provided to ease porting from the old internationalizationtools.B (findtr,.B mergetrand.B msg2qm)to the new ones. It will not accept Qt message files generated by.B lrelease,as.B lreleasecompresses .qm files by stripping unnecessary information for lookup..SH OPTIONS.TP.I "-help"Display the usage and exit..TP.I "-verbose"Explain what is being done..TP.I "-version"Display the version of.B qm2tsand exit..SH "SEE ALSO".BR http://doc.trolltech.com/i18n.html.SH AUTHORJasmin Blanchette, Trolltech AS <jasmin@trolltech.com>