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Eltigani
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English to Arabic
May 4, 2013

I tried to open an excel document saved as CSV with A (Source English) and B (Target Arabic), but SDL 2011 open the Arabic doc in ???????????? as unreadle format, I suggest that My SDL in missing the Arabic characters, how can i fix that please? during installation I choosed Arabic Languges, and it works when I use my TM which is Eng/Arbic for translating other documensts?
Please if there is any help
Regards
Eltigani Musa
Tokyo

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Encoding May 5, 2013

For starters, what is the encoding of your file?
 
Eltigani
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CSV language Problem May 5, 2013

Arabic Windows

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Rolf Keller
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Unicode May 5, 2013

Eltigani wrote:

Arabic Windows


Use the Save As command in Excel and save the document in Unicode coding.
 
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Try converting to May 5, 2013

UTF-8 and UTF-16 and import them.
 
Eltigani
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CSV language Problem May 7, 2013

Hi all
Thanks for the respond, I did try to open and also to import my doc in SDL 2011 after saving it as Unicode (UTF-8), but it fails to open and also there is no option about to import it?

Thanks in advance for the help

Eltigani
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And what about May 7, 2013

UTF-16?
 
Eltigani
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CSV language Problem l May 7, 2013

This option wasn't aviabale under my excel 2010 tools

Abdulrhim Ahmed
 
Rolf Keller
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UTF-8 --> UTF-16 May 8, 2013

Eltigani wrote:

This option wasn't aviabale under my excel 2010 tools


Windows & MS Office work (internally) with UTF-16. So, if you export as "Unicode", you'll get UTF-16. If you export as "UTF-8" you'll get UTF-8.

If this doesn't work, export as UTF-8, open the file using Notepad and save it as UTF-16.
 
Eltigani
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CSV language Problem May 9, 2013

Rolf
Thanks so much for your insights,
I copied Colum A & B and saved them separately in MS Word as .Doc then exported them through Winalign to MY TM in SDL trados 2011

At the very beginning I exported the file as "Unicode", but failed to open....they must be something wrong the Arabic, English has no problems

Thanks again for your cooperation

Abdulrhim Ahmed
 
Eltigani
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Translation Memories Arabic/English/Arabic May 17, 2013

Hi there
Any idea about how I can buy or get a Translation Memory for both directions Arabic to English and English to Arabic?? plus Auto-suggest dictionary or Term bases

I mean I tried to build my own TMs but the thing really consume months or may years to make a good one like google translate

Best Regards
Eltigni
Tokyo

Abdulrhim Ahmed
 


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