Embedded content is set up properly to include all reg-ex tags that are even in the beginning of the setnence.(But it won't show up selectively)

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Working in game translation, we use reg-ex to set up certain codings that show up as "tags" using the embedded content function.

However, the embedded content is set up properly to include all reg-ex tags that are even in the beginning of the setnence.(But it won't show up selectively)

For example, the segment 183 (picture below) has the same sentence structure as segment 188. But 185's tags that come in the beginning are missing.

Segment 185 sentence

<size=35><sprite=0></size><voffset=0.15em> {0} 훈련하기</voffset>

Segment 188 sentence

<size=30><sprite=2></size><voffset=0.15em> +{0} 고잉 홈</voffset>

Screenshot of Trados Studio showing segments 183 to 188 with missing tags in segment 185. Segment 185 should display size and sprite tags at the beginning but only shows placeholder 0 and color tag.

As you can see the sentence is basically the same, but one will show up and the other won't. This is just 1 example from this project that I'm doing. There were many other times this has happened and screwed up the client's codings. It sucks that we can't full rely on trados not to have bugs like these.

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[edited by: Trados AI at 1:24 PM (GMT 0) on 29 Feb 2024]

Paul · Answer

Keni Lee 
 Keni Lee said: It sucks that we can't full rely on trados not to have bugs like these. 
 Perhaps it's not a bug at all? Please share a sample file that exhibits this behaviour for you.

Keni Lee · Answer

Hey for anyone in the future who come here I think I figured out why this happens. 
 
 So I've noticed that trados can be very sensitive about the documents it gets fed. 
 I've taken the same document (which I found out that it was once a google spread in the past) and copy pasted into a new Microsoft Excel but when pasting I only pasted the value. 
 Which you can do by pressing ctrl then v after pasting the content. 
 
 This will for some reason get rid of this problem and will show all tags that might have been hidden even though you've set the regular expression correctly. 
 
 This also helps with trados sometimes getting errors when exporting.

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Embedded content is set up properly to include all reg-ex tags that are even in the beginning of the setnence.(But it won't show up selectively)

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