Hello,

Your understanding of how language resources work in Trados Studio is quite accurate. Here's a more detailed explanation:

1. Variables: These are indeed patterns that should not be translated. They are placeholders for dynamic content in your text.

2. Abbreviations: Trados Studio does not recognize the "." (dot) as a full stop mark in abbreviations. This helps in maintaining the integrity of abbreviations during translation.

3. Ordinal Followers: Similar to abbreviations, Trados Studio does not recognize the "." (dot) as a full stop mark in ordinal followers.

4. Dates and Times: Trados Studio can auto-translate date and time in the target language with the proper expression, as per the language resource settings.

5. Measurements: Trados Studio recognizes the numbers before or after measurement units and can auto replace numbers. This helps in maintaining consistency in translations involving measurements.

6. Numbers: Trados Studio recognizes numbers and maintains their format during translation. This is especially useful in technical or financial translations.

7. Currency: Similar to measurements, Trados Studio recognizes currency formats and maintains them during translation.

To set some of the measurement units to NOT be translated, you can add them to the list of variables. This will ensure that Trados Studio treats them as placeholders and does not translate them.

Remember, any changes to these settings in the TM are applied immediately but will not affect the language resources template used (default or other). However, if you have made any additions to the default settings, you need to reindex the TM afterwards for them to work.

I hope this helps! If you have any more questions, feel free to ask.

Best regards,

RWS Community AI

how many variables can be acceptable with no impact to pferformance?