Trados thinks the source language is English but it's French Thread poster: Paulien Rutten
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Hi,
I am new to Trados and need some help. I am trying to import a file that is in French, but when I try to import it in Trados, Trados says the soure language doesn't match because the source language is identified as English. Any idea how to fix this?
It's a html file by the way.
| | | | Yossi Rozenman 
Germany
Local time: 13:19
Member (2006)
English to Hebrew
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| Which file type? | Dec 18, 2023 |
Which type of file are you trying to import?
And what do you mean by "import"?
| | | | Samuel Murray
Netherlands
Local time: 13:19
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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Paulien Rutten wrote:
When I try to import it in Trados, Trados says the source language doesn't match because the source language is identified as English. ... It's an HTML file by the way.
First, let's confirm if it really is an HTML file. If you right-click on the file (in Windows Explorer, e.g. on your Desktop) and select Properties, what "Type of file" does it declare the file to be? An "HTML" file that "Opens with" your default browser, or an "SDL XLIFF Document" that "Opens with" Trados Studio?
The reason I'm saying this is because I'm speculating that the file you have is not a foo.html file but a foo.html.sdlxliff file, and your operating system (Windows) is set up to hide the final file extension, so that it appears to you like the file name is "foo.html" (because Windows auto-hides the .sdlxliff part). If it is true that you have an SDLXLIFF file (e.g. foo.html.sdlxliff), then it means that the person who created the file had created it with the wrong source language.
And if this is so, then perhaps you should ask your client to send you an SDLXLIFF file with the correct language codes.
Hackish solutions:
If you feel VERY confident in editing text files, you can open the SDLXLIFF file in Notepad and then change this:
source-language="en-US" target-language="fr-FR"
to e.g. this:
source-language="fr-FR" target-language="en-US"
so that Trados will load it with the correct languages.
Or, you can simply go ahead and load the file into Trados with Trados' preferred settings, and translate it. In other words, even though the file is in French, you can load it into Trados as an "English" file and simply translate it into whatever language you want to translate it into.
[Edited at 2023-12-18 15:33 GMT]
| | | | expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 12:19
Member (2015)
English to Portuguese
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| I also don't understand your issue.. | Dec 18, 2023 |
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Stepan Konev
Russian Federation
Local time: 14:19
English to Russian
| Check your project language pair | Dec 18, 2023 |
As a new user of Trados, you could create an EN-to-FR project and try to use it for files in French. Make sure that your project is exactly FR-to-EN (or whatever your target language is). To check your project language pair, launch Trados, go to Projects view, open the project, open your problem file and look at the lower right corner. It must be French followed by the arrow icon and your target l... See more As a new user of Trados, you could create an EN-to-FR project and try to use it for files in French. Make sure that your project is exactly FR-to-EN (or whatever your target language is). To check your project language pair, launch Trados, go to Projects view, open the project, open your problem file and look at the lower right corner. It must be French followed by the arrow icon and your target language.
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