Unable to make a project with txlf files

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Hi there! 
 While it is no problem open single txlf files in Studio, I am not able to make a project of them (just get reference file status). Is there a solution? 
 
 Best regards, 
 Knut

Paul · Accepted Answer

Knut Atle Klausen 
 Thanks for the file, this helped and now I can reproduce exactly what you are seeing and I know how to solve it. 
 First thing is that the TXLF uses no-NO for Norwegian Bokm&aring;l while Studio will use nb-NO since this is what Microsoft uses as well. So the reason you get no target language code is because Studio doesn't know what it is. 
 Next thing is that when you create a Project, if you use the drag and drop (which I would highly recommend you don't), the files will be checked against the default languages in your template and as a result if your default template source happens to be something other what's in the file you will get the message you have shown. If however you create your project using the create a new project icon in the Projects View or by using Ctrl+N you will be able to correct the languages that are in the default before you add your files. This way you won't get that error on creation. You will however still get it when you try to open the file. 
 So this leads me onto the only way to fix this which is to use a text editor to correct the language codes in the TXLF files. So this: 
 target-language = " no-NO " 
 Needs to be changed to this: 
 target-language = " nb-NO " 
 Then you won't have any of the problems you have mentioned so far. I think that if we had a TXLF filetype specifically for Trads Studio we could map the languages Wordfast uses and avoid these issues. But seeing as you are doing what I would do and have probably added *.txlf to the fiemask for the XLIFF filetype you are caught up with using a very specific XLIFF filetype that validates the languages. 
 Some good news is that we are buildig a new multilingualXML filetype for the AppStore at the monent and this filetype would allow you to handle these files easily and without any worries over language codes because it doesn't care what codes are used. You just tell it where the source is and where the target is, and then what languages they should be. That's it. So once we release it you'll find these problems are a thing of the past.

Paul · Answer

Knut Atle Klausen 
 Replacing codes in 100's of files shouldn't be a problem. Easy way if you have Notepad++ is like this: 
 https://darrenoneill.eu/?p=1250

Paul · Answer

Knut Atle Klausen 
 What have you done to try and narrow this down? That process of thinking about what could cause this may help you find the solution to the problem. So for example: 
 
 have you checked that the project template you are using when you create a project is set up to handle txlf files? 
 if it is, then when you add your files in the project wizard is the file shown as recognised or not at that point? 
 if it's not recognised what do you see when you then click in the settings from the project wizard to check the filetype is correctly configured?

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