Multilingual JSON files as source

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Hi, 
 I have been given a set of JSON files that contain multiple languages. Sample chunk from file is: 
 "BusinessTerms": [ { "Code": "BG-10", "TermName": "English term", "Definition": "blah blah.", "Description": "blah blah.", "Translations": [ { "Language": "no", "TermName": "Norwegian term" }, { "Language": "se", "TermName": "Swedish term" } ] } 
 ] 
 
 Can I assume that I will need to strip out the translated languages before processing the file? If I load as-is using the JSON parser, it treats all strings as source strings, regardless of their actual language. 
 Best Regards 
 Mark

Achim Herrmann · Accepted Answer

Translation tools like SDL Trados Studio or SDL Passolo usually treat JSON files as monolingual key / value pair files. User defined syntax or even multilingual files from various internationalization frameworks are not supported. 
 The easiest solution is to pre- and post-process the files. 
 A much more complex solution is the implementation of a user defined parser using the SDK which may be worth if you need to process hundreds of those files.

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