Two variants of a language: Can I change the TM? Thread poster: Y. Peraza
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Y. Peraza
Local time: 08:15
Danish to Spanish
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Hi all,
I have a problem here. I usually use the option "Spanish-International sort" as target language, but now my client says that he can not clean my files because he uses "Spanish-Spain" in his setup. I need to send them a few files again, but using the combination "Source language> Spanish-Spain".
How can I do this? If I change the source language in the Workbench, a message appears when I open the files: TRADOS won't operate because the languages combination is ... See more Hi all,
I have a problem here. I usually use the option "Spanish-International sort" as target language, but now my client says that he can not clean my files because he uses "Spanish-Spain" in his setup. I need to send them a few files again, but using the combination "Source language> Spanish-Spain".
How can I do this? If I change the source language in the Workbench, a message appears when I open the files: TRADOS won't operate because the languages combination is different.
Can anybody help me?
Thank you in advance.
Yaiza
PS- This is urgent.... Ay!
[Edited at 2008-08-07 18:53] ▲ Collapse
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Vito Smolej
Germany
Local time: 08:15
Member (2004)
English to Slovenian
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SITE LOCALIZER | if it is just cleaning the files ... | Aug 7, 2008 |
then change the laguage code in the bilingual files to suit the client. Or use (for instance) PlusToyz to i) create a two-column word file and ii) delete the source (bingo, it's clean now).
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| Export to txt, change language by search and replace, import into new TM again | Aug 8, 2008 |
Hi
I have this issue with the various versions of English sometimes.
- Export the TM to a *.txt file.
- Open the *.txt file.
- You will see that every segment has a part that defines the language.
Search for "Spanish Int" in the segments (or whatever else it says) and replace with "Spanish ES" (just an example, I don't know the definition of your language variants).
- You will now have created a txt-TM with the right language that only needs i... See more Hi
I have this issue with the various versions of English sometimes.
- Export the TM to a *.txt file.
- Open the *.txt file.
- You will see that every segment has a part that defines the language.
Search for "Spanish Int" in the segments (or whatever else it says) and replace with "Spanish ES" (just an example, I don't know the definition of your language variants).
- You will now have created a txt-TM with the right language that only needs importing into a new TM with the proper language variant.
Good luck! ▲ Collapse
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Y. Peraza
Local time: 08:15
Danish to Spanish
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TOPIC STARTER | Bilingual file | Aug 8, 2008 |
Vito Smolej wrote:
then change the laguage code in the bilingual files to suit the client. Or use (for instance) PlusToyz to i) create a two-column word file and ii) delete the source (bingo, it's clean now).
Thank you very much. That's exactly what I need to do. How do I change the language code in the bilingual files? I can't figure out how to do it...
Thanks again.
[Edited at 2008-08-08 06:51]
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avsie (X) 
Local time: 08:15
English to French
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| Open the file with Notepad | Aug 8, 2008 |
Hi,
Open your TTX file with Notepad and change the target language. Look for something like "SourceLanguage="XX-XX" TargetLanguage="XX-XX"" in the header of the file and change the target language for ES-ES (the code for Spanish (Spain)).
Save your file. And voilà, you have changed the target language
I hope this helps,
Marie-Claude
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Y. Peraza
Local time: 08:15
Danish to Spanish
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TOPIC STARTER
Thank you for your suggestions. However, I don't have any TTX files. I have PPT files (Power point). What shall I do? Shall I save them as TTX? Wouldn't I lose info by doing so?
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avsie (X)
Local time: 08:15
English to French
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| Bilingual files | Aug 8, 2008 |
How did you translate your Power Point presentation using Trados, with Tag Editor I presume? If so, you obviously created a ppt.ttx bilingual file when translating (and 'Saving bilingual as...'). Otherwise, I really wouldn't know what kind of bilingual file you have at the moment
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Y. Peraza
Local time: 08:15
Danish to Spanish
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TOPIC STARTER
Of course, yes, I have the biligual files. I'm sorry, I thought you all were talking about the TM. I got confused with txt and ttx.
I'm going to try your solution.
Thank you very much!
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avsie (X)
Local time: 08:15
English to French
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It's easy to get confused Let me know if it works for you!
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