Under Community Review

Automatic conversion of units in addition to localisation

Trados 2007 used to have the ability to convert units as well as localize them.  So go from inches to centimetres for example, or GBP to Euros.  This feature was actually removed because of a lot of adverse feedback from users where rounding errors and other problems were sometimes causing the translation to be incorrect.

I would like to see this feature brought back in but with an editable configuration.  Conversion figures and abbreviations, as well as the freedom to create your own. It should also be possible to turn off the feature of you don't want it.

Paul
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  • MemoQ has this feature already and it is working like a charm without a problem, so I have no idea why Trados has removed this functionality! I believe the only problem with the measurement conversion feature in MemoQ is that it does not round up the numbers, but then again still gives the accurate and exact conversion. The Auto Translatable feature in MemoQ is indeed of a great help, which something Trados lacks as well and the Regex Autosuggest software is Ok to use, but still without many additional functionalities such as the Regex Assistant in MemoQ, with a lot of preset expressions. I believe this area needs a lot of enhancement from Studio developers.

    All the best.

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  • MemoQ has this feature already and it is working like a charm without a problem, so I have no idea why Trados has removed this functionality! I believe the only problem with the measurement conversion feature in MemoQ is that it does not round up the numbers, but then again still gives the accurate and exact conversion. The Auto Translatable feature in MemoQ is indeed of a great help, which something Trados lacks as well and the Regex Autosuggest software is Ok to use, but still without many additional functionalities such as the Regex Assistant in MemoQ, with a lot of preset expressions. I believe this area needs a lot of enhancement from Studio developers.

    All the best.

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