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How to ignore escape sequences?

Christian Schmidt

Hey,

let's say I do have a sentence in my source segment which I want to translate. Beside the regular sentence however I've got escape sequences, "\n" for example. I noticed, that the AT for example sometimes struggles with these escape sequences ( "\n\nSentenceA" becomes "\n\SentenceA" for example). 

Is there a way I can make the AT ignore the escape sequences? GoogleAPI for example puts spaces like "\ n \ n " or sometimes "\ N \ N".
I feel parser rules won't help me with that. Xpath probably neither? Has anyone had similar issues and has a solution for this? Because if you translate an xml with quite a few of those escape sequences, you really will miss some of those mess ups and end up with problems later on (when the line break doesn't appear, for example). 

 

Appreciate any help :)

 

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    Hi

    Perhaps you can use the option in the MT Enhanced plugin to send plain text to the MT provider and not the markup? If you make sure these are tagged correctly, using parser rules, then it would be pretty simple.

    Alternatively if you do properly tag the file with parser rules (you said it was XML) then I would expect most MT engines to be able to handle these anyway.

    Cleanup Tasks may be available for 2019 soon, but really you should not need this. Can you provide a small sample XML that messes up when using MT?

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    Fullscreen escapeForReview2.xml Download 
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<string name="abteilung">Ein Satz.\n\nEin weiterer Satz.</string>
<string name="abteilung">Ein Satz.\n\nein weiterer Satz.</string>
<string name="abteilung">Ein Satz.\n\n Ein weiterer Satz.</string>
<string name="abteilung">Ein Satz.\n\nein weiterer Satz.</string>
<string name="abteilung">Ein Satz.\n\nEin weiterer Satz.</string>
<string name="abteilung">Ein Satz.\nEin weiterer Satz. Einzelner Escape</string>
<string name="abteilung">Ein Satz.\n Ein weiterer Satz. Einzelner Escape</string>
<string name="abteilung">Ein Satz.\nein weiterer Satz. Einzelner Escape</string>
<string name="abteilung">Ein Satz.\n ein weiterer Satz. Einzelner Escape</string>
<string name="abteilung">Ein Satz.\n</string>
<string name="abteilung">Ein Satz.\n\n</string>
<string name="abteilung">Ein Satz.\n\n\n</string>

<string name="daidalos_confirm_create_folder">Verzeichnis \'$file_name\' existiert nicht. Sind Sie sicher, dass Sie dieses erzeugen möchten?</string>
<string name="daidalos_confirm_create_folder">Verzeichnis \'$file_name\' existiert nicht.\nSind Sie sicher, dass Sie dieses erzeugen möchten?</string>
</resources>

    So I hope the file upload worked. Here also an image that should illustrate the problem quite clearly:

    Screenshot of Trados Studio showing a list of strings with a warning message about a missing directory for file upload, and a query if the user wants to create it.

    Can you already figure which solution solves my problem the easiest way?

     

    [edit]: I'm currently using DeepL for AT... so the Enhanced MT Add-In doesn't work for me. :(
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    [edited by: Trados AI at 2:27 PM (GMT 0) on 28 Feb 2024]
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  • 0 in reply to Paul Filkin

    Fullscreen escapeForReview2.xml Download 
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<string name="abteilung">Ein Satz.\n\nEin weiterer Satz.</string>
<string name="abteilung">Ein Satz.\n\nein weiterer Satz.</string>
<string name="abteilung">Ein Satz.\n\n Ein weiterer Satz.</string>
<string name="abteilung">Ein Satz.\n\nein weiterer Satz.</string>
<string name="abteilung">Ein Satz.\n\nEin weiterer Satz.</string>
<string name="abteilung">Ein Satz.\nEin weiterer Satz. Einzelner Escape</string>
<string name="abteilung">Ein Satz.\n Ein weiterer Satz. Einzelner Escape</string>
<string name="abteilung">Ein Satz.\nein weiterer Satz. Einzelner Escape</string>
<string name="abteilung">Ein Satz.\n ein weiterer Satz. Einzelner Escape</string>
<string name="abteilung">Ein Satz.\n</string>
<string name="abteilung">Ein Satz.\n\n</string>
<string name="abteilung">Ein Satz.\n\n\n</string>

<string name="daidalos_confirm_create_folder">Verzeichnis \'$file_name\' existiert nicht. Sind Sie sicher, dass Sie dieses erzeugen möchten?</string>
<string name="daidalos_confirm_create_folder">Verzeichnis \'$file_name\' existiert nicht.\nSind Sie sicher, dass Sie dieses erzeugen möchten?</string>
</resources>

    So I hope the file upload worked. Here also an image that should illustrate the problem quite clearly:

    Screenshot of Trados Studio showing a list of strings with a warning message about a missing directory for file upload, and a query if the user wants to create it.

    Can you already figure which solution solves my problem the easiest way?

     

    [edit]: I'm currently using DeepL for AT... so the Enhanced MT Add-In doesn't work for me. :(
    emoji


    Generated Image Alt-Text
    [edited by: Trados AI at 2:27 PM (GMT 0) on 28 Feb 2024]
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