Created attachment 332886 [details] test case in PyQt4, only a couple of lines Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): qt-4.4.3-10.fc10.i386 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. download the test case 2. type LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF-8 python messagebox.py Actual results: English Yes/No Expected results: French Yes/No Additional info: this applies to any language not just French rpm -ql qt | grep qt_.*\.qm /usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_ar.qm /usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_de.qm /usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_es.qm /usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_fr.qm /usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_help_de.qm /usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_help_pl.qm /usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_help_zh_CN.qm /usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_help_zh_TW.qm /usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_iw.qm /usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_ja_jp.qm /usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_pl.qm /usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_pt.qm /usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_ru.qm /usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_sk.qm /usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_sv.qm /usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_uk.qm /usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_zh_CN.qm /usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_zh_TW.qm it's wasn't application specific https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477074
Qt only loads translations if the application itself is translated. (KDE does the same, by the way.) You are not initializing i18n in your test application, so you do not get Qt translations either.
thanks, I felt something wrong and I asked in both IRC channels Qt and fedora-devel and the later asked me to file a bug
It was me, sorry. I should have asked you to stop by #fedora-kde too, but I had assumed the #qt folks would be more helpful. :(
don't be sorry it was a good experience to me, maybe now I could look in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477074 to check if those things are initialized there