I am getting very frustrated with the following issue:
when translating into Arabic I need the editor to align the target text so it becomes a right to left text.
Its quite astonishing that the programme does not change the text direction to rtl automatically when selecting Arabic as the target language.
In addition to that it seems to there is no method or workaround to change the language direction manually.
I hope there will be a solution soon!
Daniel
It should work as you want it to. Please provide more information to help identify the issue:
Paul Filkin | RWS Group
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Thanks for the quick reply. Here's the information requested:
1. Trados Studio 2021 16.0.2.3343
2. word file
3. Arabic (World)
3. Arabic (World)
That's your problem. It's a bug with this variant. I tested with the new SR1 version due for release shortly and this is still a problem there unfortunately. Your only solution for now is to choose a different variant of Arabic.
Paul Filkin | RWS Group
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Also, if you use the Saudi Arabia variant in Trados Studio (which I've found is the setting most ME translators have their computers set to for Arabic) it has the benefit that Trados Studio also has the Arial font already mapped for Arabic as a target language. This is useful as it handles Arabic nicely and removes the potential you can have with some fonts used in the source document which do not support Arabic completely. If this happens then you'll find that the unsupported Arabic characters are displayed as the Unicode square box symbol when you create the target Arabic version of the document being translated.
However, for all variants of Arabic you can change/add a specific font for use when creating the Arabic Target version via the File Type settings for the MS Office / most of the Adobe / OpenDocument file types. This is done under the Font Mapping option in these File Types.
Also, if you use the Saudi Arabia variant in Trados Studio (which I've found is the setting most ME translators have their computers set to for Arabic) it has the benefit that Trados Studio also has the Arial font already mapped for Arabic as a target language. This is useful as it handles Arabic nicely and removes the potential you can have with some fonts used in the source document which do not support Arabic completely. If this happens then you'll find that the unsupported Arabic characters are displayed as the Unicode square box symbol when you create the target Arabic version of the document being translated.
However, for all variants of Arabic you can change/add a specific font for use when creating the Arabic Target version via the File Type settings for the MS Office / most of the Adobe / OpenDocument file types. This is done under the Font Mapping option in these File Types.
This is valuable information, thanks a lot!
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