Hello,
I am using Trados Studio Freelance 2024 - 18.0.2.3255. I have subscribed to an Azure OpenAI plan with Chat gpt4-o.
My problem is that the non-breaking spaces from the source text are not preserved in the target text. They are either replaced by regular spaces or removed. How can I configure the AI to fix this issue?
Thanks in advance
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It seems amazing that you need to think about using AI to resolve this. Please share a source file, a small one, that behaves this way and explain when this happens. Is it when you save a target files? Is iit when you use Machine Translation? What type of file is it?
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Hello,
Here is an example file (source file in English and target file obtained with Azure in Trados) : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CYhfV__qXCSz7GZGNKrhN3lFArW04d2i?usp=sharing
I always translate Word files like the one attached. When I translate using only my translation memories, there are no issues.
However, when I use Azure Chat GPT-4-o, the non-breaking spaces after standard references like ISO, IEC, EN, etc., and units are systematically replaced with regular spaces, with  , or even removed entirely. I use the "Refine translation" prompt, which I’ve supplemented by specifying to preserve the original punctuation, but it still doesn’t work.
On the other hand, when I copy the text directly into the Azure Chat GPT-4-o web interface, the non-breaking spaces are preserved. So something is happening at the interface level between Azure and Trados. I think my prompt is not taken into account.
I don’t want to use AI to fix this issue — I simply want the AI to maintain the same punctuation as in the source text and not force me to carry out additional systematic checks. I want to focus on content, not formatting.
Thank you in advance for your help.
I moved your post into the appropriate forum as this is app related.
FYI Oana Nagy
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Here are some more examples showing that the formatting is not preserved at all. The structure of the text (paragraph numbers, capital letters in titles, etc.) is not maintained.
There is clearly an issue related to Trados, as this type of error does not occur when I translate directly in ChatGPT.
Could you please advise me on how to resolve these basic issues?
Link to the sample file with examples:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11okhxKf-m-NalVwzCfgpD8WLenIYDBlv?usp=sharing
Thanks
Here are some more examples showing that the formatting is not preserved at all. The structure of the text (paragraph numbers, capital letters in titles, etc.) is not maintained.
There is clearly an issue related to Trados, as this type of error does not occur when I translate directly in ChatGPT.
Could you please advise me on how to resolve these basic issues?
Link to the sample file with examples:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11okhxKf-m-NalVwzCfgpD8WLenIYDBlv?usp=sharing
Thanks
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