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Problems translating from Chinese to English in Wordfast
Thread poster: Miguel Angel Orjuela Pineda
Miguel Angel Orjuela Pineda
Miguel Angel Orjuela Pineda
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Chinese to Spanish
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Aug 3, 2008

Hi everyone.
I just installed wordfast version 5.53q and I see it's a really good tool for translators. However I have a problem. On the one hand, If I want to translate from Spanish or English to Chinese the results are very good (It translates the text from Spanish to Chinese very accurately), on the other, if I want to translate from Chinese to English, Spanish or Japanese the only thing I get is many "???????????????????????????????" symbols. What should I do? Is not possible to use th... See more
Hi everyone.
I just installed wordfast version 5.53q and I see it's a really good tool for translators. However I have a problem. On the one hand, If I want to translate from Spanish or English to Chinese the results are very good (It translates the text from Spanish to Chinese very accurately), on the other, if I want to translate from Chinese to English, Spanish or Japanese the only thing I get is many "???????????????????????????????" symbols. What should I do? Is not possible to use the ZH-CN to ES-ES / ZH-CN to EN-US TM's in Wordfast? I tried to create my own glossary, but I still get that problem, I don't know if it's a problem of unicode... If anyone can help me, I'll be very thankful.

Thanks for reading,

Miguel ▲ Collapse
 
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Chinese to English
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Possibly... Aug 3, 2008

If ES/EN -> ZH works fine it means your ZH TM is fine (ie Unicode). When you work ZH -> ES/EN and use the same TM, you first need to reverse Source and Target of the TM (Setup Wordfast -> General -> Reverse All)

A glossary is a separate file from a TM. Make sure your ZH or JP glossary is saved in Unicode.




Miguel Angel Orjuela Pineda wrote:

Hi everyone.
I just installed wordfast version 5.53q and I see it's a really good tool for translators. However I have a problem. On the one hand, If I want to translate from Spanish or English to Chinese the results are very good (It translates the text from Spanish to Chinese very accurately), on the other, if I want to translate from Chinese to English, Spanish or Japanese the only thing I get is many "???????????????????????????????" symbols. What should I do? Is not possible to use the ZH-CN to ES-ES / ZH-CN to EN-US TM's in Wordfast? I tried to create my own glossary, but I still get that problem, I don't know if it's a problem of unicode... If anyone can help me, I'll be very thankful.

Thanks for reading,

Miguel


[Edited at 2008-08-03 06:43]
 


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