Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: File conversion to TXT
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @Neilmac
[quote]neilmac wrote:
The client's platform gives me the option of downloading the files in these formats: CSV / gettext PO / TBX /TMX / Excel Open XML. [/quote]
An "Excel Open XML" file opens in Excel, and from there you can copy it to a plain text file. CSV is quite a complicated format, and not standardised, which means that different tools export different types of "CSV" and accept or refuse to accept different types of "CSV" files from other tools. Gettext PO is plain and is text, but it contains other bits of code as well, and you can't simply translate by overtyping, and it may contain escaping (depending on the language and the file encoding). TBX is an XML-like format for glossaries. TMX is an XML-like format for translation memories. Neither TBX nor TMX are "plain text" in the usual sense of the word, but most CAT tools can open TMX files for viewing (though not for editing). I suggest: Excel Open XML, and then copy/paste.
[quote]Tony M wrote:
My bigger concern might well be how you are going to pop it all back in again afterwards... ? [/quote]
Yes, good question: how do you intend putting it all back again? Will you be pasting it back? I have a couple some paster scripts that I used to paste context from text files back into online tools.
[Edited at 2019-12-04 17:29 GMT]
Topic: File conversion to TXT
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @Neilmac
[quote]neilmac wrote:
The client's platform gives me the option of downloading the files in these formats: CSV / gettext PO / TBX /TMX / Excel Open XML. [/quote]
An "Excel Open XML" file opens in Excel, and from there you can copy it to a plain text file. CSV is quite a complicated format, and not standardised, which means that different tools export different types of "CSV" and accept or refuse to accept different types of "CSV" files from other tools. Gettext PO is plain and is text, but it contains other bits of code as well, and you can't simply translate by overtyping, and it may contain escaping (depending on the language and the file encoding). TBX is an XML-like format for glossaries. TMX is an XML-like format for translation memories. Neither TBX nor TMX are "plain text" in the usual sense of the word, but most CAT tools can open TMX files for viewing (though not for editing). I suggest: Excel Open XML, and then copy/paste.
[quote]Tony M wrote:
My bigger concern might well be how you are going to pop it all back in again afterwards... ? [/quote]
Yes, good question: how do you intend putting it all back again? Will you be pasting it back? I have a couple some paster scripts that I used to paste context from text files back into online tools.
[Edited at 2019-12-04 17:29 GMT]