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color: rgb(107, 116, 140);"><p>This may be a stupid question but is the <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">TRANSLATION_DOMAIN</tt> stuff actually used somewhere? I'm not familiar with how it works. However, I find it strange that its not defined for kwrite and kate but is defined for all plugins.</p></div>
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<p>Short story: yes, it is used, silently by all the *i18n* calls which take this definition as first argument (hidden behind a macro that any *i18n* calls is). For kate & kwrite you do not see that, as there is a default catalog defined per application, and both kate & kwrite set that using <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">KLocalizedString::setApplicationDomain("fooapp");</tt>.And for libs & plugins <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">TRANSLATION_DOMAIN</tt> allows to overwrite the default catalog in that macro-magic ways in each translation look-up call.</p>
<p>If you want to get more familiar, please see <a href="https://api.kde.org/frameworks/ki18n/html/prg_guide.html#link_cat" class="remarkup-link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://api.kde.org/frameworks/ki18n/html/prg_guide.html#link_cat</a></p></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D22721">https://phabricator.kde.org/D22721</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>daandemeyer, Kate<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>kossebau, turbov, asturmlechner, kwrite-devel, domson, michaelh, ngraham, demsking, cullmann, sars, dhaumann<br /></div>