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Please help: problem with selecting a glossary in Wordfast 5.53 with Word 2004, Leopard
Thread poster: Han Li
Han Li
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May 28, 2008

Dear fellow translators,
I can't select any glossary in Wordfast 5.53 with Word 2004. The file code of glossary is Unicode; it can be selected in Wordfast 5.53 with Word 2003 in my PC. When I selected the glossary file, it told me:" This file comes from a different Unicode format and must be rewritten." After I click on OK in the dialog box, it told me:" Error writhing to the following file…"
Can anyone tell me how to add an existing glossary to Wordfast with Word 2004?
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Dear fellow translators,
I can't select any glossary in Wordfast 5.53 with Word 2004. The file code of glossary is Unicode; it can be selected in Wordfast 5.53 with Word 2003 in my PC. When I selected the glossary file, it told me:" This file comes from a different Unicode format and must be rewritten." After I click on OK in the dialog box, it told me:" Error writhing to the following file…"
Can anyone tell me how to add an existing glossary to Wordfast with Word 2004?
Thanks in advance!


Best regards,
Han Li
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Dragomir Kovacevic
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Open the glossary in Word May 28, 2008

hello Han Li,

after "This file comes from a different Unicode format and must be rewritten." - just close Wf, don't click on Ok. Open the glossary in Word, and re-save it in the correct Unicode for Wf on Mac, which, I guess, should be utf-16BE, i don't remember well (somewhere in the manuals, you'll find about the correct sub-type of utf-16 for Mac Word) Don't try to use Mac'c Text Edit for all of that.
You'll most probably get the same response for the tm-s, not just glossari... See more
hello Han Li,

after "This file comes from a different Unicode format and must be rewritten." - just close Wf, don't click on Ok. Open the glossary in Word, and re-save it in the correct Unicode for Wf on Mac, which, I guess, should be utf-16BE, i don't remember well (somewhere in the manuals, you'll find about the correct sub-type of utf-16 for Mac Word) Don't try to use Mac'c Text Edit for all of that.
You'll most probably get the same response for the tm-s, not just glossaries. Therefore, convert everything in Word, before linking into Wf.

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Han Li wrote:

Dear fellow translators,
I can't select any glossary in Wordfast 5.53 with Word 2004. The file code of glossary is Unicode; it can be selected in Wordfast 5.53 with Word 2003 in my PC. When I selected the glossary file, it told me:" This file comes from a different Unicode format and must be rewritten." After I click on OK in the dialog box, it told me:" Error writhing to the following file…"
Can anyone tell me how to add an existing glossary to Wordfast with Word 2004?
Thanks in advance!


Best regards,
Han Li
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www.dtptranslate.com




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Han Li
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Local time: 15:43
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It works…… May 29, 2008

Thank you, Dragomir.
I opened it with Word in Mac and save it as in utf-16. Now it is OK. Although it looks some characters missing in MAC's Text Edit, but the target characters can be seen in TM editor in Wordfast.
By the way, I forgot to tell you that the target language of glossary is Chinese.

Have a nice day!

Regards,
Han Li

[Edited at 2008-05-29 13:38]
 


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