Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: How your CAT tool handle entity references?
Poster: tz7
Entity References for particular symbols, like ＆quot;, ＆nbsp, and ＆amp;, used in HTML or XML source should be shown as actual characters, like ", [space], and & when you are translating (＆nbsp; may be shown differently from regular space in some CAT tool), so that you can see what they are and if necessary you can change or remove them in your translation. These entity references need to be kept as is, unless you changed or removed, in the resultant target file. I guess many of popular CAT tools work like this; Trados, MemoQ, Smartling, Memsource... except XTM :(
Handling these entities correctly is ver important for translators. Otherwise, you have to deal with strings like below:
＆#160;＆#160;＆#160;＆#160;＆lt;RecipientStatuses＆gt;
How does your CAT tool handle these entities?
[Edited at 2020-04-02 22:57 GMT]
[Edited at 2020-04-02 22:58 GMT]
Topic: How your CAT tool handle entity references?
Poster: tz7
Entity References for particular symbols, like ＆quot;, ＆nbsp, and ＆amp;, used in HTML or XML source should be shown as actual characters, like ", [space], and & when you are translating (＆nbsp; may be shown differently from regular space in some CAT tool), so that you can see what they are and if necessary you can change or remove them in your translation. These entity references need to be kept as is, unless you changed or removed, in the resultant target file. I guess many of popular CAT tools work like this; Trados, MemoQ, Smartling, Memsource... except XTM :(
Handling these entities correctly is ver important for translators. Otherwise, you have to deal with strings like below:
＆#160;＆#160;＆#160;＆#160;＆lt;RecipientStatuses＆gt;
How does your CAT tool handle these entities?
[Edited at 2020-04-02 22:57 GMT]
[Edited at 2020-04-02 22:58 GMT]
