Trados 2021 - Emojis in Bilingual Excel

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Hello, 
 
 I'm currently handling many projects in mobile gaming translation which both use multilingual Excel files and emojis in the notifications. As the Excel files contain a column with character limitations, I'm using the Bilingual Excel file type to include them in the project. 
 I've read that Trados 2021 SR2 offers emoji support, so I decided to try it out for this client. When using the Microsoft Excel 2007-2019 file type, the emojis were correctly imported into the sldxliff as tags, but I was unable to replicate the same result with the Bilingual Excel file type. Here's a screenshot from my project using the Bilingual Excel (and the original Excel file with emojis for reference): 
 
 From what I've read in the Trados 2021 SR2 release notes , Microsoft Excel is one of the file types covered by the emoji support. I'm not sure if that covers the Bilingual Excel though. 
 
 I suppose I have two questions: 
 1. Does Trados 2021 SR2 support emojis in the Bilingual Excel? If not, are there any plans for expanding support for that file type? 
 2. If it is supported, what could I be doing wrong? The Bilingual Excel project was created without any TMs or non-default settings. 
 
 I'm working on the following version - Trados Studio 2021 Professional SR2 - 16.2.9.9198 
 
 Any help would be much appreciated!

Paul · Answer

Maria Wrotkowska 
 Maria Wrotkowska said: Does this file type have emoji support as well? It would be a major help with my mobile gaming projects. 
 That is a very good question. So I tested with your file and translated into two languages. The results were interesting... but first here's what I found: 
 French 
 
 German 
 
 Target file 
 
 So... on the face of it pretty good. However this filetype doesn't treat the emoji as a tag so this potentially reduces your leverage when translating files that have similar text but different emojis. I don't know how much of a problem this would be in practice? If it makes sense I guess we could look at adding an option to treat emojis as tag? Certainly I it might make placing them easier although I learned something new today with the Win+; shortcut: 
 
 So I like that we can add the colour that Excel doesn't :-) 
 fyi: Lydia Simplicio Patrick Andrew Hartnett

Paul · Answer

Maria Wrotkowska 
 In Trados Studio 2022 it is supported for the Bilingual Excel filetype: 
 
 In Trados Studio 221 it isn't and I doubt we have plans to support it either. But Daniel Brockmann may be able to confirm.

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