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Thread poster: Omer faruk apak
Omer faruk apak
Omer faruk apak  Identity Verified
Türkiye
Local time: 12:29
Member (2018)
Turkish to English
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Jul 8, 2017

The problem is I have to translate a text with a lot of codes. ı have to keep codes as they are, and only translate the words between them.However, no matter how hard I try, when I add \n and for example a number like %12, the text order goes corrupt.

I can't copypaste anything on the correct order, it just pushes the copypasted word, or number to the wrong place.

I tried to add english as a target language in addition to arabic and it's the same.

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The problem is I have to translate a text with a lot of codes. ı have to keep codes as they are, and only translate the words between them.However, no matter how hard I try, when I add \n and for example a number like %12, the text order goes corrupt.

I can't copypaste anything on the correct order, it just pushes the copypasted word, or number to the wrong place.

I tried to add english as a target language in addition to arabic and it's the same.

I tried to write the text in rtl enabled word file and copy paste on trados, and it's the same.

There are thousands of lines that I must finish, but I am really struggling to translate each one of them. It appears a very ridiculous problem, but it affects all my daily capacity. I omitted the lines so far.
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Sorour
Sorour
Local time: 10:29
Italian to Arabic
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file format? Jul 8, 2017

what type of file it is?

 
Omer faruk apak
Omer faruk apak  Identity Verified
Türkiye
Local time: 12:29
Member (2018)
Turkish to English
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TOPIC STARTER
It's excell. Jul 8, 2017

it is an excell file.

 
Omer faruk apak
Omer faruk apak  Identity Verified
Türkiye
Local time: 12:29
Member (2018)
Turkish to English
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TOPIC STARTER
SOLVED Jul 10, 2017

For anyone who might need help with this issue: use the home button then in the formatting section you will see LRM and RLM settings. You can swift between directions this way in the same sentence without any problem.

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