What would be the easiest way to batch replace (ě)|(š)|(č)... signs to (e)|(s)|(c)...? - Regex and XPath - Translation Productivity

Regex and XPath What would be the easiest way to batch replace (ě)|(š)|(č)... signs to (e)|(s)|(c)...?

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Sometimes we need to provide strings for displays without accents. Until now these were edited manually or using 3rd party apps via export for external review and acceptingall tracked changes - both approaches are quite timeconsuming and not very "clean and easy". Would it be possible to perform such changes directly in Editor or using any SDL tool?

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Ladislav

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0 Jesse Good over 4 years ago

Hi Ladislav,

Have you tried SDLXLIFF toolkit?

It has a "Replace" tab which you can use.

Also, is this batch replace for Source or Target?
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0 Ladislav Hlavatý over 4 years ago in reply to Jesse Good

Hello Jesse,
I am not sure this will help... I can search for all strings containing accented characters (using toolkit or Studio), but how do I replace them with correcsponding characters? Is there a way to replace a value in $1|$2|$3 from ě|š|č to e|s|c?
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0 Walter Blaser over 4 years ago in reply to Ladislav Hlavatý

Ladislav

If you enter "ě" into the search string and "e" into the replace string, it will do this. I don't see where there should be a problem:-)

Walter
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0 Ladislav Hlavatý over 4 years ago in reply to Walter Blaser

Hello Walter,
there is about 20 accented letters (and multiply by 2 for capital letters) in Czech and I would like to perform all search and replace in one go... Not doing this for every single letter - this is why I started the question with regex string. Any other suggestions?

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0 LCfD LCF over 4 years ago in reply to Ladislav Hlavatý

Why not just open the bilingual SDLXLIFF with Notepad++ ( https://notepad-plus-plus.org/ ) and record a macro of ~20 (for lower case) + ~20 (for upper case) search and replace operations? My guess is that Sdlxliff structure doesn't employs accented characters except for source/target content (or you have them found on both sides of your segments?)
Of course, that approach has some drawbacks, i.e.: when recording such a macro that would be time-consuming, yet later you'd be thankful to yourself for the work done.
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0 Jesse Good over 4 years ago in reply to Ladislav Hlavatý

Hi Ladislav,

What version of Trados are you using?
I'm currently making a Batch Task Plug-in which would solve this problem.
Hopefully I can release it (for free) in a couple weeks.
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0 Nora Díaz over 4 years ago in reply to Jesse Good

Jesse,

This is going to be very useful. I'll be looking forward to its release!
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0 Ladislav Hlavatý over 4 years ago in reply to LCfD LCF

Well, I am a little bit worried to use this approach - it might be there are no accented characters in header etc., but still it seems to risky to me. But thanks for suggestion.

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0 Ladislav Hlavatý over 4 years ago in reply to Jesse Good

Hello Jesse,
I am on latest Studio 2015 SR2 CU 4. This sounds great! If needed some testing, let me know.

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0 Walter Blaser over 4 years ago in reply to Ladislav Hlavatý

Ladislav

I this case, you could as well use a third-party utility such as Useful File Utilities' Batch Replacer. This would save you recording the macros as you can enter all the substitutions in a simple Excel.

And you could do it on the target files instead of on the bilingual ones.

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0 Ladislav Hlavatý over 4 years ago in reply to Walter Blaser

Hello Walter,
unfortunatelly, I need to deliver bilingually - so I need to replace still in Studio - and since the content can be also used on other devices supporting accents, we perform translation using accents to store into TM and remove all accents just before delivery. As I mentioned at the beginning, I do have a tool for removing accents (there is actually a several of them for Czech users, not so uncommon task to do), but I had to use Export for external review to update Studio data... But Jesse's app should be the best solution, I suppose.

Thank you all for your tips.

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Ladislav
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0 Rodrigo Ruivo over 4 years ago in reply to Walter Blaser

Hello Walter

Just by curiousity about that tool~. Im getting a blocked page aparetnly due to malware. Can you enter this link from your machine?
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0 Walter Blaser over 4 years ago in reply to Rodrigo Ruivo

Rodrigo

Yes without any problem. I just let the URL be analyzed by virustotal.com and it was reported as safe. Also, a virus scan of the downloaded file did not report any malware. I have actually used this SW already.

Which tool is reporting malware in your case?

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0 Rodrigo Ruivo over 4 years ago in reply to Walter Blaser

Im was trying to download the app useful file types from replsoft.com

but I cant enter the site

I get:
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0 Walter Blaser over 4 years ago in reply to Rodrigo Ruivo

Rodrigo

We don't see your screenshot.

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