Qt Phrase Book (.qph)

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.

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>

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.