---
name: "linguist-qt4"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "qt4-dev-tools"
version: "4:4.8.7+dfsg-18+deb10u1"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/linguist-qt4"
---

# linguist-qt4(1)

translation tool for Qt4.

## NAME

linguist-qt4 - translation tool for Qt4.

## 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

*~/.config/Trolltech/Linguist.conf*

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 originally written by Jeremy Lainé \<jeremy.laine@m4x.org\> for the Qt3 linguist, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).  Brian Nelson \<pyro@debian.org\> trivially updated it for Qt4. Updated to Qt 4.5.2 by Frederik Schwarzer \<schwarzerf@gmail.com\>