Why does Qt create empty.lproj?

[kainjow]

Does anyone know why Qt creates a blank file on OS X in the bundle at Contents/Resources/empty.lproj ? Seems kind of strange. If it's going to create something like this, it should at least just call it English.lproj and be useful.

[kainjow]

I see in /qmake/generators/unix/unixmake.cpp it's getting appended to QMAKE_BUNDLE_RESOURCE_FILE, but there is no clear reason why (only happens for app bundles).

[goetz]

I don't know the exact reason, but it seems that it is related to application translation. The interwebs are not very insightful on this.

[kainjow]

I've written dozens of Cocoa apps, commercial and freeware, some fully localized. Never seen this before. I didn't see any other reference to it in the Qt source either. Might have to file a bug or find some other way to contact the devs.

[govage]

My investigation shows that this file is needed to translate the strings in native dialogs according to the selected system locale.