Trados changes comma to dot after exporting the target file (DE EN)

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Hi, 
 I have a problem when saving an .idml target file and converting it into a PDF file. 
 Here's an example: 
 In Trados, I have the following segment (DE>EN): 
 
 Notice that there's a comma after "A4" both in the German and English version. 
 My usual workflow with these .idml files is to save the target file in a specific folder which converts it to a PDF file. 
 When I open the PDF file, there's suddenly a dot after "A4" instead of the comma: 
 
 At the moment, I'm assuming that Trados thinks the German comma is a decimal separator and that's why this happens, but I don't understand why the dot doesn't appear in the Trados Editor view but only when I export and convert the file to PDF. 
 The current workaround for this issue is that colleagues from another team within the company edit the PDF for me, but I would rather be able to solve this issue myself and not create additional work for them. 
 Has anyone else encountered this problem and found a solution? 
 Thanks in advance!

Daniel Hug · Accepted Answer

Franziska Sonntag 
 Franziska Sonntag said: I have a problem when saving an .idml target file and converting it into a PDF file. 
 How exactly do you convert the IDML into a PDF file? The normal assumption would be that you open it in InDesign (which converts it into an INDD) and then export to Adobe PDF. But there are other ways I believe, and I think this is the step where this change might happen. Studio saves a comma as a comma, and InDesign imports it as such. Please tell us which program you use for the conversion. 
 Daniel

Jesús Prieto · Answer

Hi Franziska Sonntag , 
 If you open the generated target IDML in InDesign, do you the see dot or the comma in that sentence?

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Trados changes comma to dot after exporting the target file (DE > EN)

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