Ki18n is the kde internationalization system for user-interface text. it enables localization of user-visible strings, including locale-aware argument substitution and formatting. ki18n is built atop the widely used gettext internationalization system, making the workflow familiar to both programmers and translators. it can be considered a gettext-wrapper for code based on the qt library, but it also provides additional functionality over basic gettext.

contains development files for ki18n.