How to handle special characters in ftl files

Question

Hello, 
 We have a problem when exporting ftl files. Maybe someone could help with this? As suggested in another post we added the &ldquo;.ftl&rdquo; ending to the HTML 5 data type, so Trados can process these files. We used Trados 2017 for this. 
 We have changed the entity conversion settings (unchecking the box Entity conversion) and now some of the special characters (e.g. with accents) are exported correctly. However, there is one kind of element where this doesn&rsquo;t work. 
 Original: 
 
 Export: 
 ' symbol in the export." /> 
 So here the quotation mark and the &ldquo;>&rdquo; are not formatted correctly and ">" are added in the wrong places. 
 In Trados it looks like this ("show all content"): 
 
 Does anyone have an idea how to fix this or exclude the whole part from translation? 
 Thank you in advance. 
 Sara

Lydia Simplicio · Answer

Hello @ &Uuml;bersetzungskoordinator Gogolin 
 As your post appears to have been overlooked and im assuming you are referring to this earlier thread- 
 https://community.sdl.com/product-groups/translationproductivity/f/studio/15551/ftl-file-type 
 maybe someone who has more experience in this file type will be able to help you further.

Paul · Answer

Übersetzungskoordinator Gogolin 
 Thee are reserved characters in html so you need to convert them into entity names or numbers before translating otherwise Studio attempts to "fix" them. So like this for example:

Trados Studio > 1. Trados Studio

How to handle special characters in ftl files