Why to change TTX file manually? TagEditor will let me do all necessary edits. Well, this is not a complete truth.
Sometimes, especially when we work with complex TTX files containing numerous tags, it happens that TagEditor skips a string it considers non-editable, despite we want to work with such string.
Example:
“TAG” button should be pressed first.
(Tag can be an image, button name, or whatever else.)
TagEditor may open the translation unit as follows:
“ (i.e. this double quote is excluded from translation unit)
TAG” button should be pressed first.
Some languages use different double quotes (e.g. Czech lower double quote [?]), so some translators will need the leading double quotes included in the translation unit to be able to work with it and to prevent possible problems when post-processing the bilingual file.
Here is how I solve this issue.
- Save and close the bilingual TTX in TagEditor.
- Open the TTX using plain text editor, such as Notepad or PSPad.
- Search for translation unit containing incorrect character, which has not been included into translation unit. In above example, search for relevant double quote [“].
- Replace the character with a correct one, in our case with lower double quote [?].
- Save the file and quit Notepad.
When you re-open the TTX in TagEditor and open the relevant translation unit, you will see that segmenting remains incorrect, but the problematic double quote has changed as we wanted.
Result:
? (correct lower double quote)
TAG” button should be pressed first.
After cleaning the bilingual file, the resulting clean file will contain desired characters.
Note: This is not a “clean” solution, but works well as a workaround.
