MultiTerm using outdated/deprecated language code

Hi,

MultiTerm 2017 (SR1 - 14.2.6.23639) seems to be still using outdated/deprecated language codes that differ from the ones Trados Studio 2017 uses.

MultiTerm uses:
NO-NO: Norwegian (Bokmal, Norway)
SH-LATN-RS: Serbian (Latin, Serbia)
SH-HR: Croatian (Croatia)

instead of the correct ones Trados Studio uses:

NB-NO: Norwegian (Bokmal, Norway)
HR-HR: Croatian (Croatia)
SR-LATN-RS: Serbian (Latin, Serbia)

This seems to be around and known issue for several years, as can bee seen from some posts:

2013: https://www.proz.com/forum/sdl_trados_support/261535-multiterm_croatian_iso_code_sh_hr_and_not_hr_hr.html

2015: https://community.sdl.com/product-groups/translationproductivity/f/91/t/5720

2017: https://community.sdl.com/product-groups/translationproductivity/f/91/t/13527

I'd like to know when this will finally be fixed?

Thanks and best regards,
Sascha

Parents Reply
  • Dear Paul,

    When creating MultiTerm TBX files from other software the correct language codes do not work and the files cannot be imported in MultiTerm.
    And creating terminology exports from MultiTerm (e.g. TBX LISA 2002) the outdated language codes are used as well and cannot be imported into other terminology software that expects the correct language codes.
    If you do not want to break backwards compatibility of the deprecated codes at least the correct ones should be accepted as well and the export configurations should allow exporting the correct language codes.

    Best regards,
    Sascha
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