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Qt: Embedding Translations in the program-file

Posted 03-29-2023 at 02:41 PM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 08-02-2023 at 12:27 AM by Michael Uplawski (German version, French version)

Tags embed, localization, qmake, qt-framework

A styled version of this document: https://www.uplawski.eu/articles/QtTranslations
In German: https://www.uplawski.eu/articles/QtT.../de_index.html
In French: https://www.uplawski.eu/articles/QtT.../fr_index.html

Embedding translations in Qt-programs

Introduction

Several techniques allow the internationalization of Qt -program.

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spellcheck in qutebrowser

Posted 12-28-2021 at 02:43 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 12-28-2021 at 02:45 AM by Michael Uplawski

Tags config.py, dictionary, qutebrowser, spell-check

If you want to set a spellcheck dictionary for the running session, type

Code:

:set spellcheck.languages ['en-US'] 
:set spellcheck.languages ['en-US', 'de-DE']
:set spellcheck.languages ['en-US', 'de-DE', 'fr-FR']

for only one or several languages at once.

To persist these settings, open config.py and add something like:

Code:

# Spellcheck
config.set('spellcheck.languages', ["en-US", "fr-FR", "de-DE"])

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Ruby: reading from STDIN, if there is something to read.

Posted 09-25-2021 at 01:11 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 10-08-2021 at 11:49 PM by Michael Uplawski (Category)

The logic of ARGV and ARGF still escapes me, I am approaching perfection empirically by trial, error and surrender. Now I believe to do stuff the right way, which is highly unsatisfactory.

Today's sura goes like this:

To avoid a hanging program, when there are no data waiting at STDIN, thou shalt write

Code:

if !STDIN.tty?
  # do as you must
end

tty meaning “teletype-writer”, it stands for terminal/console/pseudo-terminal and the like....

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False statement

Posted 03-23-2021 at 12:57 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 12-06-2021 at 07:14 AM by Michael Uplawski

Tags doubt, neuroscience, pseudo-science

I just modified my comment to one of my own blog-entries but now feel that it is itself worth an entry.

If it sticks it may be sticky. Avoid.

This comment contained a false statement. I have to leave it here and mark it as false, because it is frequently repeated in a pseudo-scientific context, by right-wing political activists, by marketing-experts, by so-called “coaches”.

The story is that, around 1955, an American scientific formulated a hypothesis which was

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[HTML/CSS] Web-Fonts - Don’t let “them” get you

Posted 02-25-2020 at 01:56 PM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 02-13-2022 at 10:43 AM by Michael Uplawski (13/02/2022 url of the handwritten version updated)

Thread: ttf works, why should I use woff?
A styled version of this document: http://www.uplawski.eu/articles/Linu...web-fonts.html
A hand-written version of this document: http://www.uplawski.eu/articles/Linu...eb_fonts1.html

One of my bosses once said that, when things start to become complicated, it means that an error has been committed.

Where programming is concerned, I usually arrive to back-trace my actions...

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