Changing Target Language in Established Memory on Trados Team - Spell Check Issue with Spanish (Latin America)

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I work in a school system and we use Trados Live Team (to assign projects) and Trados Studio (to translate since we like it better than the online platform). 
 The memory we have been building has the following language pair: English (United States) - Spanish (Latin America). The spell check has not been working this whole time and we found out that it is because the spell-checks used in Trados do not recognize Spanish (Latin America) as a language. Therefore, it was suggested that we change the language pair on our already existing memory to another Spanish "variety" that is recognized. I am wondering how to edit the memory to change the target language to another Spanish variety and also, if I do edit it whether that will affect it at all since all previous documents were done using Spanish (Latin America) as the target language. This is so that from now on, we can use the spell check by ensuring that all projects from now on have the target language set at a Spanish variety that is recognized by the spell check without losing our memory. I hope that made sense.

Jesús Prieto · Answer

Nadia Vazquez 
 I don&rsquo;t think all the steps from AI are realistic&hellip; 
 
 Open Trados Studio and go to the Translation Memories view. 
 Select the translation memory you need to change the target variant and press the button Export ". This step will export the TM to a TMX file format. 
 Open the TMX file with any text editor, such as Notepad or Notepad++. 
 In the text editor, replace all instances of es-419 (Spanish [Latin American]) to es-ES , for example, i.e., to Spanish (Spain) variant. 
 Save the changes in the text editor. 
 Now in Trados Studio, create a new TM with the same target variant as above (es-ES, for example) and import the TMX file. This TM will have the target Spanish variant you selected above. If you need another variant, you can check this link: https://localizely.com/language-code/es/

Jesús Prieto · Answer

Nadia Vazquez 
 Nadia Vazquez said: Therefore, our memory is in the cloud. Would the steps you mention apply? 
 You can download the TM from the cloud to your Desktop and work from there. Then upload the new TM to the cloud. 
 Nadia Vazquez said: when it comes to step 4, how do you go about replacing the language code? 
 As an example, this is a screen-shot from Notepad:

Paul · Answer

Cristina Heraud-van Tol 
 The answer to this is simple. Neither RWS, nor anyone else that I know of, create spell checkers that really do provide spell checking in all the variants of every language that is supported by Trados. This is because they don't always exist. 
 So if you want spell checkers in the variant you prefer you have two options: 
 
 if you use Microsoft dictionaries then install the language pack for Microsoft Office (if there is one) for the variant you need and then when you restart Trados \studio it will be available for you, or 
 if you use Hunspell, just create a copy of the nearest available variant and then over time build up your own corrected version for the dictionary you chose. 
 
 We did build a small utility that can help with it if you don't want to plan programmer: 
 https://appstore.rws.com/Plugin/54 
 But if you like to understand where this comes from and how it all works, there is an explanation here: 
 https://multifarious.filkin.com/2018/06/11/too-many-language-variants/

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Changing Target Language in Established Memory on Trados Team - Spell Check Issue with Spanish (Latin America)

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