You need to have a Qt translation for your new language, otherwise your language won't be loaded at runtime. To add a new language: 1) Run 'cd src/sdk' (change to the parent directory of this file) 2) Run 'make ts-untranslated' 3) Rename translations/untranslated.ts to translations/.ts 4) Run 'make qmake' 5) Do your translation. Just run 'make' whenever you want to test it. 6) Run 'make commit-ts' 7) Submit the translation for review To update an existing translation, just run 'make ts-' instead of steps 2) to 4). More information is available at https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_Localization - these instructions apply here equally, except for the different directory names.