US/UK English TMs
Thread poster: Jonathan Holland
Jonathan Holland
Jonathan Holland  Identity Verified
France
German to English
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Mar 15, 2021

Hi everyone,
In Trados Studio 2019 I can't get a German to US English project to recognise my large general TM, which is a mixture of German to US English and German to UK English. When I created the SDLTM from a tmx file (which came from an Atril DV TM) I was forced to specify either US or UK English as the target language so I made it UK English. Is it normal that it won't now be usable with jobs in Trados having US English as the target language? Is the only workaround to specify UK Eng
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Hi everyone,
In Trados Studio 2019 I can't get a German to US English project to recognise my large general TM, which is a mixture of German to US English and German to UK English. When I created the SDLTM from a tmx file (which came from an Atril DV TM) I was forced to specify either US or UK English as the target language so I made it UK English. Is it normal that it won't now be usable with jobs in Trados having US English as the target language? Is the only workaround to specify UK English as the target for projects even when I am actually translating into US English? Any advice gratefully received!
Jon
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Robert Rietvelt
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Local time: 20:13
Member (2006)
Spanish to Dutch
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@Jonathan Mar 15, 2021

Jonathan Holland wrote:

Hi everyone,
In Trados Studio 2019 I can't get a German to US English project to recognise my large general TM, which is a mixture of German to US English and German to UK English. When I created the SDLTM from a tmx file (which came from an Atril DV TM) I was forced to specify either US or UK English as the target language so I made it UK English. Is it normal that it won't now be usable with jobs in Trados having US English as the target language? Is the only workaround to specify UK English as the target for projects even when I am actually translating into US English? Any advice gratefully received!
Jon


Open your UK TM as a "any TM". It does the trick for me.


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Jonathan Holland
Jonathan Holland  Identity Verified
France
German to English
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TOPIC STARTER
Thanks Mar 15, 2021

Thanks Robert, I can't see where that is but I'll look out for it next time I set up a project.

 
Remy van Tol
Remy van Tol  Identity Verified
Peru
Local time: 14:13
Dutch to English
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Project settings Mar 15, 2021

Jonathan Holland wrote:

Thanks Robert, I can't see where that is but I'll look out for it next time I set up a project.


Go to Project settings > Language Pairs > [Your language pair] > Translation Memory And Automated Translation > Use > AnyTM: Any file-based TM...

Select your TM that's in the other language variant.


 
Jonathan Holland
Jonathan Holland  Identity Verified
France
German to English
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TOPIC STARTER
Thanks! Mar 15, 2021

Remy, that has worked, many thanks to you and Robert!
Jon


 


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