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Customizing certain language features
Thread poster: Susie Rawson

Susie Rawson  Identity Verified
United States
Member (2014)
Spanish to English
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Oct 31, 2017

Is there a way of customizing certain features of the chosen target language? I normally translate into Spanish Argentina, and at the beginning of every segment, regardless of whether I use capital letter or not, the first letter of the segment automatically turns into capital. Sometimes it´s annoying and time-consuming, especially when it´s not actually the beginning of a sentence.
Another feature I would like to change, and don´t know if that´s possible, is the use of , and . to indicate thousands and/or decimals. Since I choose Spanish Argentina, numbers simply write themselves in Argentina´s format. Can that be customized so it sticks to the original format, not for EVERY document but yes when I decide it?
 

JennyWottrich
Netherlands
Local time: 14:40
English to German
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General settings/TM settings Nov 3, 2017

Hello Susie,

I have had similar issues before and found no way of actually customizing e.g. the decimal separator specifically. If anyone does know a method for that, I'd be very happy to hear about it as well!
But if I undestand correctly, what you want is to prevent it from localizing the number format automatically? Turning off auto-substitution will do that.

You need to do this in the TM settings.
Go to: Project Settings > Language Pairs > "your language pair" > Auto-substitution
and untick the number box.

You can find screenshots here:
https://community.sdl.com/product-groups/translationproductivity/f/90/t/10390

As for the segment starting with a capital letter.
Go to: Options > Editor > AutoCorrect
and select your target language, then untick "Capitalize first letter of sentences".

Hope that helps!icon_smile.gif

Best regards,
Jenny






[Edited at 2017-11-03 13:56 GMT]
 


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