Problem with translated Word documents (english -> japanese)

Hello,

we are using SDL Studio 2017 for translating English Word files to Japanese. 

After generating the target files we have quite often a problem with the automatic word wrapping. Sometimes the text runs out of the page.

I tried to fix this with a Post Processing BatchTask. I used this code:

applicationWord.ActiveWindow.Selection.WholeStory();
var font = applicationWord.ActiveWindow.Selection.Font;
font.NameFarEast = "MS PGothic";
font.NameAscii = "Segoe UI";
font.NameOther = "Segoe UI";


The word wrapping works much better with this, but in some cases it still looks strange:
Screenshot showing Japanese text in Trados Studio with incorrect word wrapping, causing text to run out of the page.

The problem is the space between the two words of the product name. Somehow the other following Japanese characters do not fill up the line because it is interpreted as a single word.
I can fix this when I insert a space somewhere in the text manually in Word (and remove it again). Then suddenly the word wrapping is correct. But I can not achieve this by code.

Something changes when I insert a space, but I don't know what. If you have an idea, please let me know.



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[edited by: Trados AI at 1:03 PM (GMT 0) on 5 Mar 2024]