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SDL Trados fooling with numbers
Thread poster: Heinrich Pesch
Heinrich Pesch
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Finland
Local time: 08:08
Member (2003)
Finnish to German
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Sep 17, 2020

I was translating a table with numbers like:
1.5.6
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2.1.15 etc.

when I notices the software had "translated" this irregularly. Sometimes it had converted them into date-format, at other places it had just invented something out of its head. (1.5.9 -->9.5-1).
 
expressisverbis
expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 06:08
Member (2015)
English to Portuguese
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Did you try to disable Auto-Substitution function? Sep 17, 2020

Select in the respective dialog box the TM in question, then select Auto-Substitution.
After that deselect the appropriate options: "Numbers":

AutoSubs
 
Anthony Rudd
Anthony Rudd

Local time: 07:08
German to English
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Inconsisent numbers Sep 18, 2020

I find that sometimes it is better to write a regex to "clean up" the inconsistencies.
 


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