Any way to turn off currency conversion in the "placeables"?

"Placeable" may be the wrong term: I have a segment which says

"Soit un montant égal à ses droits de 236 504,32 €"

There has previously been another segment with the same words but different number, which I translated as

"I.e. a sum equal to her rights of 555 666,77 €"

What I would like is for SDL simply to substitute the number:

"I.e. a sum equal to her rights of 236 504,32 €".

Instead it simply puts, er, nothing, but it recognises this as a 97% type match. 

So I press Alt-1 and then try and insert the "placeable", which is the whole currency sum, including the "€": but as it does so it tries to be helpful by converting to "€ 236,504.32".

I want to turn this off: I do all my number and currency processing after-the-fact, in a final stage of post-translation, using regex substitutions.  So I just want it to insert "236 504,32 €".

Even better would be for it to recognise that in fact this is an identical match (barring the number), and automatically put "I.e. a sum equal to her rights of 236 504,32 €".

Is there any way to do either of these things? NB my Project Settings --> Language Pairs --> French->English --> Auto-substitution --> Dates and Times: all 7 items are ticked.

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  • Former Member
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    That is another typical example of General tools VS Special/specific tools.
    SDL Trados Studio is a general tools having almost perfect (complex) options.
    Even it is the best one but, if you have special needs, sorry, just insufficient one.

    You could make your own specific tool.
    SDL has already made nice tool for tools - SDL API.
    Using that you could make your own tool which do achieve your goal in OneClick.

    Whatever you do, the logic under the hood should be "search and replace" always - just like above comment.
    My point is how to do it with easy.

    Enjoy your time

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  • Former Member
    0 Former Member

    That is another typical example of General tools VS Special/specific tools.
    SDL Trados Studio is a general tools having almost perfect (complex) options.
    Even it is the best one but, if you have special needs, sorry, just insufficient one.

    You could make your own specific tool.
    SDL has already made nice tool for tools - SDL API.
    Using that you could make your own tool which do achieve your goal in OneClick.

    Whatever you do, the logic under the hood should be "search and replace" always - just like above comment.
    My point is how to do it with easy.

    Enjoy your time

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