---
name: "linguist-qt3"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "qt3-linguist"
version: "3:3.3.8b-7+b1"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/linguist-qt3"
---

# linguist-qt3(1)

Translation tool for Qt.

## NAME

linguist - Translation tool for Qt.

## SYNPOSIS

**linguist** \[ *TRANSLATION* \]

## DESCRIPTION

**Qt Linguist** is a tool for adding translations to Qt applications. It introduces the concept of a translation "context" which means a group of phrases that appear together on the screen e.g. in the same menu or dialog.

The only parameter accepted on the command line is  *TRANSLATION* wich is the name of the translation file you wish to open.

## FILES

*~/.qt/qt\_designerrc*

Per user configuration file.

## SEE ALSO

**Qt Linguist** is too complex to be described completely in the "man" page format. If your system is properly configured, you can access the full documentation within **Qt Linguist** under the Help menu.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Jeremy Laine \<jeremy.laine@m4x.org\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).