Hi,
Matthias here, a Swahili translator using SDL Trados Studio 2015.
Often, but not always, when opening a Trados Package, I receive the error "language code "sw-CD" not compatible on this system" and the file won't open for translation.
Is this a problem with my app or is it a file format issue?
I will be grateful for your response.
Thank you
Paul Filkin | RWS Group
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Unknown said:Actually I gave TWO links, one of them being the one you posted ;-)
So you did... sorry. That one does indeed provide more information but it's only valid up to W7 and as you clearly know there has been a lot more languages added since that version.
Unknown said:Now, since the weird "sw-CD" code for "Swahili (Congo - Kinshasa)" language is used since at least Studio 2011 (and most probably also in Studio 2009, but I don't have it installed), it really strongly doubt that it has anything to do with "abbreviation of swc-CD".
It seems to be rather related to some "home-brewed" code back in the times of missing codes for "Latin American Spanish" and the likes...
I'm only guessing, but I will ask the question since it seems to have attracted this much attention from you. I'm sticking with my guess though as 2011 used that code for "Swahili (Congo - Kinshasa)" as you pointed out, probably because it was missing from the Microsoft language support, and now that we had a need for more African languages from the Democratic Republic of Congo (country code CD) we stuck with the abbreviation we used then for Swahili (sw) and added support for the others (French, Lingala, Luba-Catanga) that all have two digit language codes. So Swahili was the only one that was different in that they used swc - so probably we were unlucky with the guess.
Apologies to the OP too... hopefully he'll still come back to discuss his original problem!
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Unknown said:I now learn than CD stands for Swahili Congo
Not quite. CD refers to the country/region and not the language code. So "Democratic Republic of the Congo". This would include:
fr-CD (French Congo DRC)
ln-CD (Lingala Congo DRC)
lu-CD (Luba-Katanga Congo DRC)
sw-CD (Congo Swahili Congo DRC)
- proper MS locale would be swc-CD
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Unknown said:- proper MS locale would be swc-CD
Actually, the codes are not MS-specific, these are internationally standardized IETF language tags (en.wikipedia.org/.../IETF_language_tag).
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