How to implement internationalization and localization support in PyQt5?
Internationalization and localization support can be implemented in PyQt5 by following these steps:
- Create translation files using the Qt Linguist tool.
- Use the pylupdate5 command in the project to generate .ts files that contain the text needing translation.
- Open the .ts file with the Qt Linguist tool, translate the text one by one, and save it as a .qm file.
- Load translation files using the QTranslator class in Python code.
- Import QTranslator from PyQt5.QtCore
Create an instance of QApplication with sys.argv
Instantiate a QTranslator object
Load the translation file ‘translation_fr.qm’ into the translator object
Install the translator into the application - Add the text that needs to be translated in the UI widget.
- Set the label to display the translated text “Hello World”.
- Load the corresponding translation file based on the user’s preferred language setting.
- import locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, ”) # Retrieve the user’s locale settings
lang = locale.getdefaultlocale()[0]
translator = QTranslator()
translator.load(f’./translations/{lang}.qm’)