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[1] [CITE@en[Qt Linguist Manual: Translators | Documentation | Qt Project]]
([TIME[2015-02-18 11:07:29 +09:00]] 版)
<http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/linguist-translators.html>
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> QM Qt message files 
> are binary files that contain translations used by an application at run-time. These files are generated by lrelease, but can also be generated by Qt Linguist.

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[2] [CITE[Qt .qm — Translate Toolkit 1.13.0-rc1 documentation]]
([TIME[2015-01-08 20:43:10 +09:00]] 版)
<http://translate-toolkit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/formats/qm.html>
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> A .qm file is a compiled Qt linguist file. In many ways it is similar to Gettext, in that it uses a hashing table to lookup the translated text. In older version they store only the hash and the translation which doesn’t make the format useful for recovering translated text.

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