figures German to English need to be confirmed always

Question

Hello, I have a weird problem with figures when translating from German to English. Trados converts the dots to commas (as it should be), but I have to confirm every single 100% match figure. And after this, the subsequent figure in the next segment changes to a 99% match ...and so on. I haven't found anything in the settings, can anyone help me with this? 
 Regards, 
 Elke

Paul · Answer

Hi Elke Maier , 
 
This suggest that the numbers are not being recognised as numbers at all. Can you provide an example text please? Or even better can you provide an sdlxliff that has this problem? You can email this to pfilkin@sdl.com if this is ok. 
 
Thank you 
 
Paul

Paul · Answer

Hi Elke Maier , 
 
The way numbers are handled in a TM is that Studio saves one number and that's it. It then uses this to recognise every other number it comes across. I reckon that if you have manged to get numbers with different formats in your TM then it's probably causing some confusion. One of the strengths of Studio can unfortunately be one if its weaknesses when it comes to handling numbers. 
 
Try this. 
 
1. Create a brand new TM so it's empty 
2. Add it to your project and disable the one that was already there 
3. Open one of your files 
4. Translate one of the numbers as required and autopropagate the rest 
5. Now lock them all 
6. Now disable this TM and enable the one you use for your translations 
 
Using the files you provided I could filter on the numbers quite easily and handle them all in one go with this expression: 
 
^\d+\.\d+$ 
 
This exercise does two things: 
 
1. Verifies that it can work for you, and 
2. Gives you a workaround with your existing TM 
 
You can then look through your TM and clean it up a little perhaps to remove the number only segments in there that might have the wrong data. 
 
Perhaps this will help a little. 
 
Regards 
 
Paul

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figures German to English need to be confirmed always