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Trados 2021 - Emojis in Bilingual Excel

Maria Wrotkowska

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):

Screenshot of an Excel file with two rows of text, the first saying 'Psst, we have a surprise for you' followed by an emoji of a gift, and the second row containing a placeholder for a name with a default value.

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!

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[edited by: Trados AI at 10:29 AM (GMT 0) on 29 Feb 2024]
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    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

    Screenshot showing the translation of two sentences containing emoji's in Trados Studio.

    German

    Screenshot showing the translation of two sentences containing emoji's in Trados Studio.

    Target file

    Screenshot showing the translated file in Microsoft Excel all correctly using the emoji's.

    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:

    Screenshot showing a small window for inserting emoji's in most windows applications.

    So I like that we can add the colour that Excel doesn't :-)

    fyi:   

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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