[PyQt] Is pylrelease preferred over lrelease, and must both be run on the target platform?

[Phil Thompson]

On 17/08/2014 4:19 pm, lloyd konneker wrote:
> I'm having problems with i18n translations of Mac app menus
> ('Preferences' displays wrong in Portuguese, etc.)
> 
> Should I run pylrelease instead of lrelease?  Must I run it on the
> target platform?
> 
> What I am doing now is running lrelease and pyrcc on Linux, and
> copying the foo_rc.py file to a Mac.
> That is, I assume the foo_rc.py file is portable.
> I assume that the strings in such a file are always UTF-8 coded, on
> all platforms, and that Qt at runtime does any necessary conversions.

There is no such thing as pylrelease.

Phil