Dear Community,

currently i am searching for a way to protect special "words" inside segments, like special combinations of letters and numbers.

Goal is to achieve that special words are locked for translation, because they are neutral and do not need to be translated into any language.
Examples could be typecodes like "RC300", "BMT1..X", and so on. What Studio supports natively is to create a list of all of these "variables" and configure it inside the translation memory settings. My goal would be to add a functionality, where these typecodes can be defined via regular expressions (e.g. "[A-Z]+[0-9]+").

In addition, the solution should not be dependant on the filter functionality for certain file formats (like XML, IDML, ...)

The advantages would be

• Typecodes would be locked for translation, avoiding a translator changing them by accident (raising quality)
• Reducing word counts in the analysis (reducing costs)

So i am searching for an approach to realize this. We already tried manipulating sdlxliff files via external scripts (inserting placeholders), but this could have disadvantages in the cleanup-process. So maybe there is a way to realize this via studio sdk.

Any Ideas?

Best regards,
Mario Trojan