PYSIDE6-LRELEASE(1)

👑 pyside6-lrelease — the bestie guide

okay so real quick, this is the manual for pyside6-lrelease, straight out of the PySide6 tools crew 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

pyside6-lrelease — it's literally just lrelease, bestie, no cap 🎀

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

🦋 Usage 🦋

lrelease [options] -project project-file lrelease [options]
ts-files [-qm qm-file]

so lrelease is part of Qt's Linguist tool chain, and honestly? iconic. it can be used as a stand-alone tool to convert XML-based translation files in the TS format into the 'compiled' QM format that QTranslator objects use. that's the whole glow-up: TS ➡️ QM 💅

⚠️ okay so here's the tea: passing .pro files to lrelease is deprecated. like, please stop. 🙈 use the lrelease-pro tool instead, or use qmake's lrelease.prf feature. ty bestie 🫶

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -help — shows you this info and then dips. exit stage left. ✨
• -idbased — deprecated, girl. this flag isn't required anymore and literally will be removed in a future version. back in the day it was used to enable ID based translation. now? not needed. periodt. 💀
• -compress — squishes the QM files down. zip zip 🎀
• -nounfinished — do NOT include unfinished translations. if it's not done, it's not invited to the party 🚫
• -fail-on-unfinished — throws an error if unfinished translations are found. it WILL make it a whole thing 😭
• -fail-on-invalid — fails if translations that flunk the following checks are found:
  • validity check of accelerators
  • validity check of surrounding whitespaces
  • validity check of ending punctuation
  • validity check of place markers

want more deets? go read the Qt Linguist help, bestie 📖

• -removeidentical — if the translated text is the exact same as the source text, then don't include the message. why repeat yourself, right? 🦋
• -markuntranslated <prefix> — if a message has no real translation, it uses the source text prefixed with the string you gave it. fake it till you make it energy 💅
• -project <filename> — the name of a file holding the project's description in JSON format. you can generate one of these from a .pro file using lupdate-pro -dump-json. so handy ⭐
• -silent — do not explain what's being done. mysterious. lowkey main character energy 🤫
• -verbose — explain what's being done. and yes, this is the default — she's chatty by nature 🗣️
• -version — displays the version of lrelease and exits. hi bestie, bye bestie 👋

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🌈 tiny reminder: every single flag above is doing its own thing, so read them properly before you go running them, okay? mwah 🫶

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pyside6-lrelease version 6.11 🌸 September 2026 🌙 — that's the version, that's the date, and that's the whole page. slay, go translate something gorgeous 💖✨🎀